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Amid a new pandemic with COVID-19, AHF continues its timely World AIDS Day theme for 2021 — “AIDS: The Other Pandemic."

While the world must continue fighting COVID-19, we cannot forget about HIV/AIDS, a pandemic that has raged for more than 30 years and remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in history.

On World AIDS Day, AHF invites you to search the countries below and find one of the many virtual or live events near you. Join us in person or online to help ensure the world never forgets about “AIDS: The Other Pandemic!”



Domestic Events - Agenda


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California, Art Exhibition

November 29th

4905 Hollywood Blvd (OTC Hollywood)

Live Event, with Art Pieces and Performance.

To learn more about annual events visit AHFevents.org


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2021 Global Events - Agenda

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AHF started as a community-based hospice in Los Angeles in 1987 to care for the sick and dying and grew to become the world’s largest AIDS organization providing over 1.6 million people with care and treatment in over 45 countries. Watch our “Keeping the Promise” documentary narrated by Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep and experience AHF’s journey to become the largest provider of HIV/AIDS care worldwide.


AHF’s Fund the Fund campaign is an advocacy initiative to mobilize civil society by calling on major world economies to ensure the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is fully funded. It specifically focuses on wealthy countries like China—which has the world’s second largest economy yet does not contribute its fair share to the Fund. Learn more by watching this short video!

As a leading sexual health organization, we believe condoms must be readily available and affordable for everyone who needs them, since they remain the most cost-effective form of prevention for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. With our creative events and electrifying advertising campaigns, we strive to promote the idea that condoms are an expression of a healthy lifestyle. Learn more about AHF-branded LOVE and ICON condoms by visiting lovecondoms.org.

While HIV/AIDS will always be AHF’s top priority – the COVID-19 vaccine disparity between rich and poor nations is immoral, unfair, and most importantly, deadly – for the billions that still have no access to lifesaving vaccines. AHF’s Vaccinate Our World call-to-action continues to push G20 leaders and vaccine makers to do the right thing and ensure that all countries have equal access to vaccines. Visit VaccinateOurWorld.org to learn more.


To help young women thrive, AHF launched its Girls Act campaign in Africa in 2016 and focused on two main objectives: Scale-up HIV/AIDS prevention services to curb new infections; and ensure that HIV positive young people have access to treatment, retention and support services. Since young women and girls 10-24 years old are twice as likely to acquire HIV as young men the same age, the successful initiative has been expanded to many other countries where AHF works.

AHF invites you to view “Girls Act!”—a heartwarming documentary about how five young women are winning their battles against HIV and leading healthy, productive lives thanks to the knowledge and self-confidence gained through their hard work, perseverance and the Girls Act program.

Since 2015, AHF has advocated for the World Bank to change the way middle-income countries (MICs) are classified, which is used to determine what countries get donor assistance and how much is given.

Due to this classification system, countries where individuals can earn as little as $2.84 per day—or about as much as a cup of coffee—are often labeled as “middle-income” and deprived of aid for vital healthcare programs and lifesaving medicines. To learn more, visit raisethemic.org.

Watch this two-minute video to learn more!

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor J.K. Simmons, AHF’s feature-length documentary, “DRUG$: The Price We Pay” shows how a corrupt system of corporate greed and faulty legislation allows pharmaceuticals to be the most lucrative industry in the world—from profits earned off the sick and dying.

Unless the pharmaceutical industry undergoes radical reform, “DRUG$” shows us how the entire healthcare system will inevitably collapse, leaving society overburdened and without access to quality medicine. Watch it for free at drugsthefilm.com or stream it on Amazon Prime today!


This current COVID-19 crisis – along with other outbreaks such as Ebola, SARS, Zika and HIV/AIDS – has made it clear that we are out of options. The world is in survival mode, and the time has come to redefine fundamental assumptions about multilateralism, international cooperation on public health, and most importantly—the need for a new Global Public Health Convention.

We invite you to learn more by reading the publication of a peer-reviewed research article titled “A Global Public Health Convention for the 21st Century” in the prestigious Lancet Public Health journal. The paper presents 10 recommendations aimed at transforming the global health system so that it can become more transparent, accountable, and cooperative when responding to international health emergencies like COVID-19.

On World AIDS Day 2021, AHF Urges Everyone to Keep Fighting “The Other Pandemic.”

While COVID-19 has devastated communities worldwide and remained in the spotlight, the world must keep fighting to protect the precious gains made against HIV/AIDS—a more than 30-year pandemic and a continuing a global public health crisis.
Read the full press release here
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World AIDS Day 2022
Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight

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What is World AIDS Day?

World AIDS Day is a global movement commemorated on December 1st every year to unite people in the fight against HIV and AIDS. At the forefront of this movement stands AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), who hosts initiatives worldwide to inspire action, raise awareness, and remind the global community that the HIV epidemic is far from over. 

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We Stand Together

Over the years, AHF has hosted some of the most significant World AIDS Day initiatives around the world. Featuring performances by icons such as Janet Jackson, Christina Aguilera, and Jennifer Hudson, these events raise awareness and drive advocacy efforts nationwide. On a global scale, fun runs, health promotions, and testing events of all kinds work together to promote HIV prevention methods, inspire dedicated action, and unite communities.

A Global Movement

From bustling cities in Africa to vibrant communities across the Americas, AHF celebrates World AIDS Day in numerous countries around the globe, uniting people in the fight against HIV and AIDS.


Locations Holding World AIDS Day Events

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Join Us Friday, December 1st @ NRG Arena
There is power in compassion and unity
Mark your calendars for December 1st, and join us for an awe-inspiring and uplifting concert starring Janet Jackson. The global superstar has used her platform to speak out on social justice issues and has become a powerhouse HIV and AIDS activist. Her performance promises an evening of top-chart hits and moving moments of activism and advocacy.

Along with Jackson, award-winning choreographer, director, and producer Debbie Allen will speak at the event. AHF will also be presenting its Lifetime Achievement Award to Emmy Award-winning actor and activist Blair Underwood.

39 million people globally were living with HIV in 2022.

14% of all people living with HIV did not know their HIV status in 2022.

1.3 million people were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2022.

9.2 million people living with HIV did not have access to antiretroviral treatment in 2022.

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AHF keeps fighting, and we invite you to help shed light on HIV/AIDS to raise our collective voices against this disease.

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Countries around the world commemorate World AIDS Day to raise awareness of the pandemic that’s plagued the world for over 40 years.

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AHF keeps fighting, and we invite you to help shed light on HIV/AIDS to raise our collective voices against this disease.

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Countries around the world commemorate World AIDS Day to raise awareness of the pandemic that’s plagued the world for over 40 years.

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AHF keeps fighting, and we invite you to help shed light on HIV/AIDS to raise our collective voices against this disease.

It's Not Over

  • 38.4 million people globally are living with HIV as of 2021.
  • 5.9 million people did not know that they were living with HIV in 2021.
  • 1.5 million people were newly diagnosed in 2021.
  • 25 % of people living with HIV are not accessing treatment. 

Your presence brings attention to the facts

It's Not Over

  • 38.4 million people globally are living with HIV as of 2021.
  • 5.9 million people did not know that they were living with HIV in 2021.
  • 1.5 million people were newly diagnosed in 2021.
  • 25 % of people living with HIV are not accessing treatment. 
Your presence brings attention to the facts

Join Us November 30th

Get FREE tickets to AHF’s World AIDS Day concert at the Kennedy Center

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Join Us November 30th @ The Kennedy Center

Get FREE tickets to AHF’s World AIDS Day concert at the Kennedy Center

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