WE’VE REACHED
75 COUNTRIES
WITH
LIVE-SAVING MEDICATION
SUPPORTED
OVER 55,000
PEOPLE
THROUGH TREATMENT
DISTRIBUTED NEARLY
$220M WORTH
IN RECYCLED
HIV MEDICATION
Medicine recycling is defined as the process of gathering, sorting, and storing unused medicines before their expiration date, discarding what is no longer viable, and redistributing these medications to non-US territories as humanitarian aid.
Since 1996, the AID FOR AIDS (AFA) HIV Medicine Recycling Program has been a pioneering and essential program that collects unused and unexpired HIV medicine in the US to recycle and redistribute it to people with HIV in low and middle-income countries with no access to treatment. Over 37 million people are living with HIV around the world and over 40% still lack access to treatment.
The HIV Medicine Recycling Program is designed to reach people with HIV who are on treatment and who may have unused and unexpired medicine that they no longer need. AFA reaches this population through community-based organizations that support the HIV community, medical centers and health care providers, and even directly through advertisements or mailers.
OPTION 1
If you are currently in the U.S., we have drop-off boxes and other collection facilities available for you to simply drop off your medication. With this method you avoid incurring in packaging and shipping expenses.
Check our full list of Drop-off Boxes & Collectors locations:
OPTION 2
Drop-off or ship your medication directly to our office in New York:
Name: AID FOR AIDS International
Address: 131 Varick Street, Suite 1006, New York, NY 10013.
Please add a note inside your package with your full name and email.
OPTION 3
Ship your medication to our office in New York, with a shipping label provided by us.
Click below to access a shipping label creation form. Once your information is sent, we will send to your email your shipping label.
For extra information please send an e-mail to Leonardo Klie: LKlie@aidforaids.org
To ship your medicines, please follow these instructions:
DO NOT DROP-OFF
Frequently Asked Questions
AFA currently offers monthly antiretroviral (ART) treatment to over 2,000 people with HIV (mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean) who would not otherwise have access to treatment.
All donated medicines are sent directly to people with HIV and/or their healthcare providers in their countries. AID FOR AIDS has established ongoing relationships with both doctors and people with HIV in order to ensure proper use and continuity of care.
We collect and recycle all antiretrovirals in both adult and pediatric formulas and dosages. We also collect and welcome donations of medicines to prevent and treat HIV-related opportunistic infections (“OIs”), such as antibiotics, antifungals, and other antivirals (e.g., for herpes infections). We welcome medicines used for HIV wasting disease and for side-effects management (e.g., for peripheral neuropathy, lipid lowering drugs) and medicines for any HIV co-morbid conditions including hepatitis C, elevated cholesterol, diabetes, etc.
Antiretrovirals (ARVs), including:
All donated medications are distributed outside the United States as humanitarian aid. For more information, see the World Health Organization’s “Guideline for Drug Donations” at: Department of Essential Drugs and Other Medicines, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
No, it is currently AFA’s policy not to accept medicines past their expiration date
Yes, we can accept medications that have been opened and no longer have the security seal. If you’ve used part of the tablets, the remaining medication can still be donated— as long as it is in the original packaging or bottle, and the label clearly shows the medication name, expiration date (must not be expired), and manufacturer.
To comply with applicable legal structures and to respect the confidentiality of people with HIV, we kindly request that you remove the names and addresses of all individuals from prescription bottles.
Please ship your medication inside an insulated bag or container. Even though we accept these kind of medication, packaging instructions varies according to the shipping company you are using. We recommend to talk first with the company in charge of shipping your donation.
For those using a shipping label provided by AFA, please read Fedex instructions on how to prepare a package that needs refrigeration: https://www.fedex.com/en-us/shipping/how-to-ship-perishables.html
If you have additional questions about how to make your donation, please email us at Lklie@aidforaids.org
