Los Angeles.– As part of a groundbreaking global effort to test one million people for HIV, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS group in the US which currently provides medical care and services to more than 86,000 individuals in 22 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, is spearheading and coordinating the ‘One Million Tests World AIDS Day 2008’ campaign.

The campaign, which has been organized by AHF in coalition with close to 1,000 global partners from 72 countries around the world, is mobilizing non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local and national governments, international relief agencies, faith-based organizations and civil society to participate.

The goal: a worldwide commitment to conduct a total of one million free HIV tests during an extended World AIDS Day week commencing on November 26th and culminating on December 1st: World AIDS Day.