AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) met in Washington D.C. earlier this week, where the organizations entered into an official partnership to fight HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, and other conditions, including tuberculosis, hepatitis viruses, and mpox.

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PAHO Director Dr. Jarbas Barbosa (left) with AHF President Michael Weinstein. (photo credit: PAHO)

“We have worked successfully with PAHO in various unofficial capacities over the past decade in Mexico, Brazil, Haiti, and Peru – we’re glad to formalize this partnership and begin putting the strength of both our organizations together to help protect people across Latin America and the Caribbean against preventable and treatable infectious diseases,” said AHF President Michael Weinstein who signed the agreement with PAHO Director Dr. Jarbas Barbosa.

AHF has worked in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2006 and provides HIV/AIDS care and treatment to more than 228,000 clients in 12 countries in the region. Additionally, AHF has provided humanitarian relief during natural disasters and other crises, including Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and the 2021 earthquake in Haiti and the refugee crisis along the Colombia-Venezuela border. Work also includes outreach to indigenous communities in remote areas of the Amazon in Peru.

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About AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)

AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to over 1.7 million people in 45 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Europe. 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 and Instagram: @aidshealthcare.

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