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National AIDS Memorial Brings Leaders in the AIDS Movement Together to Honor Lives Lost, the Survivors and Heroes Forty Years into the AIDS Epidemic
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Governor Gavin Newsom, and other leaders in the AIDS Movement call for renewed action for an AIDS-Free Generation
June 05, 2021 18:28 ET | Source: National AIDS Memorial National AIDS Memorial San Francisco, California
San Francisco, CA, June 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Leaders of the AIDS movement came together in the National AIDS Memorial – the nation’s federally-designated memorial to AIDS – to mark forty years since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States.
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San Francisco, CA, June 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Leaders of the AIDS movement came together in the National AIDS Memorial – the nation s federally-designated memorial to AIDS – to mark forty years since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States.
Surrounded by the power of 40 blocks of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and the beauty of the 10-acre Memorial Grove where thousands of names lost to AIDS are engraved, the leaders paid tribute to the more than 700,000 lives lost, the survivors, and the heroes during the past four decades. They also called for renewed action to provide care for long-term survivors, young people living with HIV today, and finding a cure that will finally end the epidemic.
It’s been 40 years since the start of the AIDS epidemic and while the infection and death rates have dropped dramatically over the past decade, hundreds of.