AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global nonprofit AIDS organization, today issued an ultimatum to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a July 4th deadline to act swiftly with steps to prevent hate speech on its social media platform postings and ads or AHF will pull its advertising dollars and join the growing number of for-profit companies and boycott the world’s largest social media platform. With an annual budget of $1.7 billion, AHF currently operates free treatment clinics and HIV testing and prevention programs in 45 countries and currently…
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AHF Unveils New National #StandAgainstHate Campaign
AIDS Healthcare Foundation and its Black Leadership AIDS Crisis Coalition (BLACC), an affinity group of AHF, today announced the relaunching of the empowering #StandAgainstHate campaign, a national advocacy, awareness and action campaign intended to take on and challenge the racism, hatred, police abuse targeting African Americans and a burgeoning white supremacy movement that continue to sweep our nation. This new incarnation of #StandAgainstHate comes in direct response to the brutal murder last week of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer and an ongoing, tragic pattern of…
Read More‘Homelessness Kills’ and ‘Gentrification Sucks’ Declares AHF in New L.A. Billboard Campaign
AIDS Healthcare Foundation have unveiled its newest Los Angeles area billboard advocacy campaign which puts the spotlight on the burgeoning homeless and housing crisis in Los Angeles. The new campaign, posted this week on over 30 billboards throughout greater Los Angeles (with 100 bus bench placements soon to follow), features two stark messages: ‘Homelessness Kills’ and ‘Gentrification Sucks.’ The first billboard features the headline ‘Homelessness Kills’ placed over a close-up image of the toe-tagged feet of an individual lying dead on a morgue table; the second includes the headline ‘Gentrification…
Read MoreAHF Rolls Out Condom Billboard Ad Campaigns Across U.S.
As rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) continue to skyrocket in the U.S.—with 50 percent of new infections being acquired by young people ages 15 to 24 years old—AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is rolling out of two new, parallel condom billboard and transit advertising campaigns promoting condom use as an effective means to combat record rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis being reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In August, CNN reported that rates of those three STDS “… have climbed for the fourth consecutive year…
Read MoreAHF Launches Proactive HIV/AIDS Prevention & Treatment Billboards
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) launched its latest outdoor advertising and awareness campaigns with new billboards and bus bench ads placed throughout Southern California. After launching here in the Southland, these two new public health awareness campaigns will roll out nationally to other markets AHF operates in starting in mid-September. Beginning August 20th, you will find 100 2 x 7 ft. bus benches across Los Angeles wrapped with the message “Friends Bring Friends.” The campaign, which visually plays off of Facebook’s iconic thumbs up ‘like’ icon, encourages people to come…
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