Over 30,000 people in the Delaware Valley are living with HIV/AIDS. Many of our friends, family and neighbors are in desperate need of health care services and other life-saving programs, but with cutbacks in government dollars , these programs are often under-funded. Now, more than ever, your donations are needed to support organizations providing HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention education, counseling and testing and care services for people living with HIV/AIDS.
• Since 1981, over 600,000 Americans have died of AIDS.
• Every 9 1/2 minutes, someone in the U.S becomes infected with HIV.
• 1 in 5 people infected with HIV don't know it.
• According to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphians are being infected with HIV at a rate MORE THAN 50% higher than residents of New York City.
• The rate of infection in Philadelphia is FIVE times the national average.
• About half of the 1.2 million people living with HIV in the U.S are not receiving medical care.
"Will history record a fateful moment in our time, on our watch, when action came too late?...No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic. I was a soldier. But I know of no enemy in war more insidious or vicious than AIDS."
- Colin Powell
What
The 25th Annual AIDS Walk Run Philly
When
7:30AM, October 16th, 2011
Where
AIDS Walk Philly begins and ends at Eakins Oval, in front of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The 12 kilometer (8.4 mile) route goes up Kelly Drive and back down Martin Luther King Drive.
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