On World Aids Day Sunday, there was a commemoration at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
On World Aids Day Sunday, there was a commemoration at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco 's Golden Gate Park. The event honored the lives lost to the disease, and celebrated the progress made. Attendees also hope to continue the conversation around HIV and AIDS, as a way to educate the younger generation. Speakers shared memories from the 80s and 90s when the AIDS epidemic took hundreds of thousands of lives.
They just think, ‘Oh, if I get HIV I just take one pill, and I’m good.’ So we need to educate," said Bert Champagne, the event director of AIDS walk San Francisco. "We lost an entire community to HIV and AIDS."Percy Vermut is helping to bridge that generational gap. The Carlton College freshman who came out as transgender at the age of 14, was part of a panel on how people of different backgrounds experience HIV.
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