[July 12, 2017]

AHF Promotes "One Community, One Love" at San Diego Pride

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, is proud to once again join the LGBTQ community in celebrating the 2017 Gay Pride season through its planned participation in more than two dozen Pride events across the country. Founded in Los Angeles as AIDS Hospice Foundation in 1987 to provide a facility for terminally ill AIDS patients in California, AHF is celebrating its 30^th Anniversary this year and continues to support LGBTQ equality and the expansion of health care services to treat people living with HIV/AIDS. At festivals throughout the 2017 Pride season, AHF will give away free condoms, share information on STD prevention and treatment, and provide free HIV testing.

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AHF's customized "One Community, One Love" Pride Bus has been featured in Pride parades in Brooklyn (6/10); Long Island (6/11); Washington, DC (6/10); Columbus, OH (6/16); Houston (6/24); and New York City, NY (6/25). It is scheduled for upcoming appearances in San Diego (7/15); Oakland, CA (News - Alert) (9/10); Dallas (9/16); Atlanta, GA (10/14); and Las Vegas (10/20). (Photo: Business Wire)

At the San Diego Pride parade on Saturday, July 15, AHF staff, patients and advocates will take part in the annual parade that steps off at 11:00 AM at the Hillcrest Pride Flag at University Ave. and ends at Quince Drive. AHF's parade contingent will march alongside its signature "One Community, One Love" Pride bus wrapped with smiling faces tht represent the diversity of LGBTQ individuals and families.

AHF is proud to support the LGBTQ community in San Diego through its AHF Healthcare Center and AHF Pharmacy located at 3940 4th Ave., Suite 140, where 96 cents of every dollar earned goes toward supporting AHF's delivery of HIV/AIDS services.

"Our AHF staff and patients always look forward to joining with the LGBTQ community in celebrating life and being out and proud at gay pride celebrations across the country each year. Our presence at this year's Pride is particularly meaningful for us as we mark our 30^th Anniversary of providing care to people living with HIV and AIDS," said AHF President Michael Weinstein. "After 30 years of being on the frontlines in the fight against AIDS, we remain grateful to be able to provide access to medical care and breakthrough treatments that have allowed people with HIV to live longer, healthier lives and to help prevent transmitting the virus to others. Today, we are currently providing care to over 740,000 patients around the globe and we're working to expand our operations internationally to be able to help even more people."

AHF's customized "One Community, One Love" Pride Bus has been featured in Pride parades in Brooklyn (6/10); Long Island (6/11); Washington, DC (6/10); Columbus, OH (6/16); Houston (6/24); and New York City, NY (6/25). It is scheduled for upcoming appearances in San Diego (7/15); Oakland, CA (9/10); Dallas (9/16); Atlanta, GA (10/14); and Las Vegas (10/20).

For a complete list of Pride festivals in which AHF will participate in 2017, visit www.ahfparticipate.org.

For more information on AHF Healthcare Center locations, AHF Pharmacy, and Out of the Closet Thrift Stores, visit www.hivcare.org, www.AHFpharmacy.org, and www.outofthecloset.org.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to over 770,000 individuals in 36 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Eastern Europe. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org. Find us on Facebook (News - Alert): www.facebook.com/aidshealth and follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) and Instagram: @aidshealthcare.

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