Vida/SIDA Competitors

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the largest global AIDS organization in the world. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website, www.aidshealth.org, find us on Facebook, www.facebook.com/aidshealth, and follow us on Twitter, @aidshealthcare. AHF’s mission of providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy regardless of ability to pay is supported through its various business lines. AHF Pharmacies, Out of the Closet thrift stores, healthcare contracts, and other strategic partnerships generate funding that help AHF provide life-saving services to the thousands of people it cares for. The hallmark of AHF’s success is generating and defining new, innovative ways to provide HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and advocacy. AHF has embarked on a mass testing initiative to identify and treat the 25 million people worldwide who don’t know they are infected. It will take 1 billion tests annually to achieve this goal. AHF is advocating for mass testing models in hopes of eliminating older, more time-consuming methods. Since 1987, AHF has cared for thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. As AHF creates and implements its unparalleled programs in new communities in the U.S. and abroad, they expand delivery of healthcare and influence over policy with the sole aim of saving more lives.

amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, is one of the world’s leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public policy. Since 1985, amfAR has invested more than $415 million in its programs and has awarded grants to more than 3,300 research teams worldwide. Recently, it launched a bold research initiative to develop the scientific basis of a cure for HIV by 2020.

Mission: NMAC (National Minority AIDS Council) leads with race to urgently fight for health equity and racial justice to end the HIV epidemic in America Since 1987, NMAC has advanced this mission through a variety of programs and services, including: a public policy education program, national and regional training conferences, a treatment and research program, numerous electronic and materials and a website: http://www.nmac.org/. NMAC also serves as an association of HIV/AIDS service organizations providing valuable information to communitybased organizations, hospitals, clinics and other groups assisting individuals and families affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.