With over 17,000 clients already registered and new clinics coming in Nezahualcoyotl, Puerto de Veracruz, Puerto Vallarta, and Cuernavaca, the Mexico team shows no sign of slowing down in its fight against the country’s epidemic, which the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates impacts approximately 180,000 people. One of the team’s most important and strongest clinical ties is with the leading facility La Clinica Condesa in Mexico City, which is the largest provider of HIV/AIDS care in Latin America. In partnership with this provider, AHF Mexico launched Pruebabus, a mobile testing unit that makes free, confidential HIV testing accessible to the public out on the streets of Mexico City.
In addition to providing treatment and care through the clinics it supports, AHF Mexico conducts large testing events several times each year in both rural and urban areas throughout the country. In 2012, 64,000 people were tested for HIV, with those who tested positive being immediately linked into local, sustained care. Adding to the country’s prevention efforts are the opportunities for the public to access free condoms through AHF Mexico’s testing events, clinics, and through the innovative mobile condom distribution initiative Condomóvil, which travels to states throughout Mexico hosting condom distribution and education events.
