SOUTH AFRICA: AHF Global World AIDS Day Events Focus on Testing and Treatment

DURBAN, South Africa - Saturday, November 29th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- PHOTO: Representatives from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health march with local residents in Durban, South to celebrate the groundbreaking of the first AHF clinic in South Africa to be built from the ground up in Umlazi on May 12, 2014. For World AIDS Day, AHF will host over 160 events around the world to promote testing, treatment for HIV/AIDS; international commemorations will launch global campaign to connect twenty million HIV-positive people to treatment by the end of 2020. For more information, visit www.aidshealth.org/wad (Click on the “Worldwide Events” tab for list of international events.)

WHO: Holding banner: (2nd from right) Michael Weinstein, AIDS Healthcare Foundation President (Far right): Penninah Iutung Amor, MD, AHF Africa Bureau Chief

WHEN: May 2014

Contacts

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Ged Kenslea,

+1-323-308-1833

ged.kenslea@aidshealth.org

mobile: 323-791-5526



or

Christopher Johnson,

+1-323-960-4846

christopher.johnson@aidshealth.org

mobile: 310-880-9913







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