AIDS Foundation works with HIV and AIDS and related areas of importance to HIV and AIDS, both nationally and internationally. HIV and AIDS requires every year many people's lives worldwide, and people living with HIV or affected by HIV still face prejudice and discrimination. AIDS Foundation works to prevent HIV. They work for HIV testing and effective HIV treatment, and that new prevention methods developed and used. They support research into a cure for HIV. At the same time, they focused on strengthening the rights of the most vulnerable audiences, combat stigma and discrimination, and to remove barriers to effective HIV efforts whether resulting sexual health or rooted in social and / or political reasons, in gender identity in sexuality or migrant status.
Their historical roots
Historically AIDS Foundation grew out of the activism of the AIDS epidemic created in the 1980s. They are shaped by the indignation of the disease caused by those who were affected by the epidemic. They are inspired by their unyielding determination to improve the situation, and stands on the foundation of their work when they head toward the future.
Values they correct theirselves against
Historical and organizational they rest on inclusion, and they insist on fighting structures that contribute to stigma and discrimination. They base theirselves on solid experience and evidence of what works, and tjhey are also those who test new methods and dry learn from it. They know that they can not lift their task without close cooperation with their audiences and their partners. AIDS Foundation works based on their communities, so their work has relevance and credibility with their partners and target groups, as well as in environments that their audiences are in.
Denmark's expert organization
AIDS Foundation is the actor in Denmark, in close cooperation with their audiences and interact with many different partners responsible for the response to HIV. They work activist, professionally, creatively and systematically and take their responsibilities to the target groups very seriously. Their expertise covers both HIV / AIDS as relevant co-factors and co-morbidities.
