AFA and NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson celebrate 3rd Annual Medicine Recycling Drive! We are thrilled to have celebrated our 3rd annual Medicine Recycling Drive in partnership with NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson and his team. At the symbolic NYC AIDS Memorial Park, right across where the iconic St. Vincent’s Hospital used to be, our…
The 20th Edition of the My Hero Gala officially has a date! After 2 years without an in-person celebration to mark our main fundraising event of the year, we officially announce May 3rd, 2022 as the date for the long awaited My Hero Gala. The upcoming edition will also serve as AID FOR AIDS official…
AID FOR AIDS hosts YPO visit in Cucuta, Colombia to draw attention to the Refugee Crisis This past November our Executive Director, Jesus Aguais and members of our AID FOR AIDS Colombia team hosted the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) in a visit to our Cucuta location Highlights of the trip included a private reception with…
AFA Venezuela: Medical Training and Healing Venezuela Our office in Venezuela is very active, especially delivering milk formulas to beneficiaries of the Healing Venezuela program, through which we have fed more than 2,000 babies to date, infants who cannot or should not be breastfeed due to their mothers’ health condition, orphaned and/or abandones babies. Conditions…
AID FOR AIDS Promotes Sustainability and Good Hygiene in Education Over the past year, AID FOR AIDS Panama had been working with the Panamanian Ministry of Education and UNESCO on the development of an educational guide to promote sustainability, good hygiene and health practices in school and educational environments. We’re proud to announce that the…
25 years of our HIV Medicine Recycling Program! This year marks not only the 25th anniversary of AID FOR AIDS, but also of its pioneering HIV Medicine Recycling Program that helped launch the organization. The last year has been though, with the COVID-19 pandemic heavily reducing medicine donations. However, our team stands strong! Having recycled…
The Stark Reality of Punished Pride: LGBTQ+ people in Latin America and the Caribbean Every June, social networks, media and other platforms join the crusade in defense of equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community around the world, celebrating and recognizing diversity. In the Dominican Republic, although each year more allies and people join the movement…
Celebrating Pride Month: I’m Just Like You Campaign This year, AID FOR AIDS is commemorating PRIDE month with «I’m just like you», a social media campaign aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community and people with HIV. Created by Taller 5 and Versagil, the campaign is also sponsored by Colombia’s GSK and ViiV…
New HIV testing and Prevention Outreach in NYC for Summer 2021! As mentioned in our March Newsletter, the city has begun to reopen and so have in-person activities for our Community Outreach Program. So far this year, we have carried out HIV testing and prevention workshops at Betances Health Center in Brooklyn, Mixteca Organization and…
AID FOR AIDS launches “El Observatorio Migrante” AID FOR AIDS is thrilled to present its most recent project in Latin America: El Observatorio Migrante (The Migrant’s Observatory), an initiative born out of the need to inform, monitor and influence change in all matters related to the current migration crisis in Latin America. The Observatorio Migrante,…
