She began her tenure at AHF at Chris Brownlie Hospice in the early 1990’s as the Director of Dietary Services and moved on to oversee the design and construction of AHF’s state of the in-patient facility, Linn House. She served as the Administrative Director of Linn House until being asked to launch AHF’s new innovative Prevention Division which included the first of it’s kind alternative HIV testing and outreach services. She built AHF’s testing program into the largest community based testing program in California.

In 2001, she was asked to go to South Africa to find and launch AHF’s first clinic outside the Unitied States. In her new position Terri directs and coordinates our worldwide advocacy, global testing and condom/prevention efforts. Terri has served in many different capacities in her nineteen year tenure at AHF. Her recent success in leading the challenging World AIDS Day One Million Tests Campaign in 2008 and then the Testing Millions Campaign in 2009 campaign speaks to her many talents. Terri’s depth of experience in advocacy, policy setting and mobilization helps to lead AHF to new frontiers in global AIDS control. Terri has been instrumental in building the capacity of our bureaus to lead advocacy efforts in their own regions. No one from AHF has spent more time in the field or worked hands-on within the global bureaus more than Terri. She has traveled extensively since 2001 and has advocated for AHF and it’s clients in Geneva, Washington, Europe as well as being deployed more than 30 times to Africa and Asia on assignments.

Terri heads AHF’s Global Testing and Prevention Initiative, is a member of the AHF Global Executive Committee, serves on Senior Management and is a Global Ambassador for AHF.

About AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a global organization providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy to over 100,000 people in 22 countries. It is the nation’s largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care.

A truly independent voice in our mission to rid the world of HIV/AIDS, AHF’s operating capital comes from our own self-created social enterprises. AHF Pharmacies, thrift stores, health care contracts and other strategic partnerships generate funding that helps AHF provide medical and advocacy services to the thousands of people it serves.

Generating and defining new, innovative ways to treatment, prevention and advocacy is the hallmark of AHF’s success. It is currently embarked on a mass testing initiative to identify and treat the 25 million people who don’t know they are infected. It will take 1 billion tests annually, and AHF is advocating mass testing models in hopes of eliminating older, more time consuming methods.

Since 1987, AHF has cared for thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. As AHF creates and implements its unparalleled programs in new communities in the U.S. and abroad, we expand its delivery of healthcare and influence over policy with the sole aim of saving more lives.

Log onto www.aidshealth.org to learn more.