ADVISORY/Press Conference Announces AIDS Healthcare Foundation Sues Glaxo for Anti-Trust AHF Discovers Invalid Patents on AZT and Other HIV Drugs.News & Assignment Editors/Legal Writers ADVISORY...for Monday (July 1) Where: Law Offices of MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS 11355 W. Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90064 Phone: 310/312-4000 When: Monday, July 1, 2002 9:30 a.m. Who: Michael Weinstein President AIDS Healthcare Foundation The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is a non profit, Los Angeles-based AIDS treatment and advocacy center. Their official founding pledge is to "provide cutting-edge medicine and advocacy, regardless of ability to pay. Robert D. Becker Intellectual Property Litigation and Prosecution Partner Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Palo Alto, Calif. Cesar Portillo Chief of Public Affairs AIDS Healthcare Foundation What: AIDS Healthcare Foundation is the U.S.' largest AIDS organization. AHF AHF antihemophilic factor (coagulation factor VIII). AHF abbr. antihemophilic factor AHF, n the abbreviation for antihemophilic factor. See also factor VIII. and Manatt Phelps & Phillips will announce the filing of a lawsuit charging British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline with anti-trust violations regarding their HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. anti-retroviral drugs AZT AZT or zidovudine (zīdō`vy  dēn'), drug used to treat patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS; also called , 3TC, and Ziagen. AIDS Healthcare Foundation is the U.S.' largest provider of specialized HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome medical care. AHF serves thousands of patients in California, New York and Florida regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. In addition, AHF currently operates two free AIDS treatment clinics in Africa: the Ithembalabantu (Zulu for "people's hope") Clinic in KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa and the Uganda Cares Healthcare Center in Masaka, Uganda. www.aidshealth.org. |
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