Saturday, November 7, 2009

Campaign for 1 Million AIDS Tests Goes On

Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 4:48
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As part of its global World AIDS Day effort to test one million people for HIV, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) spearheaded the One Million Tests campaign. The campaign, which has been organized by AHF in coalition with over 1,000 global partners from 72 countries around the world, mobilized non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local and national governments, international relief agencies, faith-based organizations and civil society to participate. The goal was to provide a total of ONE MILLION Free HIV Tests during an extended World AIDS Day week from November 26th through December 1st—World AIDS Day.

“Our ‘One Million Tests’ campaign has been met with a wildly enthusiastic response in all corners of the world,” said Terri Ford, Director of Global Advocacy for AHF and Coordinator of the ‘One Million Tests’ campaign, in a statement from Africa where she is overseeing AHF’s own ‘One Million Tests’ World AIDS Day testing efforts in South Africa and Uganda. “The collaboration and participation of so many partner organizations—NGOs, health ministries, government bodies, faith-based groups and others—has been inspiring, but I am truly heartened and humbled by those individuals who are seeking out the testing services that we and the more than thousand partner organizations are providing this week.”

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