Primary Job Title Founder & President Primary Organization 
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Location Los Angeles, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Michael Weinstein is the co-founder & president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest nonprofit global HIV/AIDS organization. Before becoming involved in HIV/AIDS related issues in the 1980s, he was a businessman and graphic designer. Since 1986, Weinstein has been a leader in the fight against HIV and AIDS. As president
and cofounder of AHF, he oversees a $1.1 billion organization whose mission is to provide “cutting-edge medicine and advocacy regardless of one’s ability to pay.”
AHF currently provides medical care and services to more than 420,000 individuals in 36 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific region and Eastern Europe.
Under Weinstein’s leadership, AHF has grown from a group of friends dedicated to the creation of dignified care for people in the last stages of AIDS to the largest AIDS organization in the United States. In the U.S., AHF now operates outpatient healthcare centers in thirteen states and the District of Columbia. AHF also operates pharmacies, a clinical research unit, Positive Healthcare/Florida, and the first capitated Medicaid managed care program for people with AIDS (Positive Healthcare/California).
In 2001, AHF launched an international initiative to bring lifesaving antiretroviral therapy to developing and resource-poor countries. Today, AHF Global works in partnership with local stakeholders including ministries of health and non-government organizations to establish sustainable and replicable models for high-quality, sustainable HIV/AIDS healthcare service delivery. AHF Global operates free AIDS treatment clinics and medical provider training programs worldwide.
