US AIDS foundation debuts ad campaign telling Pres Obama 'The War on AIDS Has Not Been Won'

As part of its ongoing advocacy efforts to spur US President Barack Obama and the Administration to do more on AIDS, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is rolling out an ad headlined 'President Obama, The War on AIDS Has Not Been Won,' which compares the amount of US dollars spent fighting the global AIDS epidemic versus that on the war in Afghanistan.

The ad features a scale with the globe on one side and the words 'Global War on AIDS: $6.5 billion in 2010' and a map of Afghanistan on the other side with the words 'Afghanistan War: $102 billion in 2010.' The ad will appear as 16 bus shelter advertisements in Washington near the White House.

The AHF's latest campaign comes on the heels of the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna last month, in which President Obama received criticism for what many in the HIV/AIDS community see as a US retreat on global AIDS under his leadership.