AIDS Healthcare Foundation Establishes Fund to Assist Survivors and Victims in Orlando Tragedy

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today mourned the senseless, brutal, murderous attack on the LGBTQ community in Orlando, a city where AHF provides HIV/AIDS care and services including free HIV testing. The AHF-supported Impulse Group has one of its largest chapters in Orlando, and the Pulse nightclub is one of its major community partners.

"Our hearts our heavy as we mourn today, standing in solidarity with the Orlando community and the entire LGBTQ community worldwide, as an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us," said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "As far as we know at this time, all of our AHF and Impulse people are safe. Our staff are giving blood, volunteering and we are dispatching our Orlando mobile testing van to assist in the blood drive at the Center in Orlando. As of tomorrow, AHF will establish a fund to assist victims and survivors, which we will set up and coordinate with and through the Center in Orlando."

Impulse United is a volunteer group of active gay men in collaboration with AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) whose purpose is to promote healthier lifestyles using modern social approaches.

The weekend marks the observation of LGBTQ Pride in many cities around the country, including Los Angeles with its Pride Parade happening today. AHF's theme this year is "One Comm(unity), One Love," a slogan that communicates the sense of strength and unity among LGBTQ individuals, especially in the face of the HIV/AIDS virus that disproportionately affects their community, a now bittersweet but sadly somehow more fitting theme in light of the Orlando tragedy.