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ASC News Archives

8.24.11 - Diaspora Activist: Health Care Project in Ethiopia a Success - Read more about our programs in Ethiopia and the successes and challenges that lie ahead. Click here to read more and click here to listen to the audio interview.

6.3.11 - African Services Committee Women's Group Speaks Out Against NY Post's Criminalization of HIV in Strauss-Kahn Coverage Read the letter here.

5.10.11 - African Services Committee honored with Drs. Frank and Mary Calderone City Health Award Read more about this award here.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 3.22.11 - Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Honored with Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award Read here

12.17.10 -- Haven in Harlem -- Ugandans Abroad, a website serving the East African population, interviews Communications Director, Stephanie Kaplan, about African Services and our role in the community. Read here

12.01.11 -- Fun Times Magazine & African Services Committee Announce Media Partnership Read here

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Tembeni Fazo: Peer Counseling African Immigrants Living With HIV

African Services' Peer Counselor, Tembeni Fazo, is featured as Poz Magazine's Advocate of the Month. Read more

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10.13.10 -- Standing Up for HIV-positive Immigrants

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A new campaign aims to beat stigma and discrimination against HIV-positive Africans in New York by urging the wider population to show solidarity with them. Read more

Press Release: African Services Committee Applauds US National Institute of Health (NIH) as First to License Patents with Medicines Patent Pool

Press Release: African Services Committee Applauds US National Institute of Health (NIH) as First to License Patents with Medicines Patent Pool

September 30, 2010 -- New York, NY -- The US National Institute of Health (NIH) has become the first patent-holder to license patents to the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), established by UNITAID this year. In doing so, the NIG and the US government have taken a large stride forward in validating the HIV MPP, and raised a leadership challenge to others within the pharmaceutical industry to follow suit. Read more

9.28.10 -- Sandra Roa speaks to African Services' Community Liaison, Fatou Diop, regarding issues surrounding immigrant healthcare in the United States. Listen to it here.

5.12.10

The Gothamist

by John Del Signore -- A city blog featuring our Positive Kids 3: Through Their Eyes fundraiser, and photographer Haik Kocharian, the photographer whose photos were featured at our event. Read the article here.

Press Release: Public Protests Worldwide on Uganda Anti-Gay Measure
Tuesday, November 17, 2009--A global public protest against a proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda will take place this week in New York City and Washington DC, aligned with global human rights protests in other cities around the world. Read more