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AIDS Action Committee (AAC) will
hold its 26th annual AIDS Walk/Run this Sunday at the DCR Hatch Shell in
Boston. The organization helps those affected by HIV/AIDS connect with essential
services and raises awareness about the disease.
Kim Wilson is a peer-advocate at AAC
who will be participating in the event. Wilson, a native of Philadelphia who
moved to Boston in her 20s, found out she was HIV-positive four years ago. But
her involvement in the walk predates her diagnosis.
“I’ll never forget: one year, I was
really sick that year. It was before I got diagnosed. And I encouraged a whole
group of people at my job to walk. I was like, ‘You guys, go out there, walk,
it’s the first week of June. I can’t walk, but it’s a great cause. Go out
there, volunteer. The people at the agency are really, really nice.’ And my
friends went out and did it,” Wilson recalled.
AAC helped Wilson rebuild her life
after her diagnosis. “When I got out of the hospital, I had no job. [Through
AAC], I learned a lot about the service system: where to get food stamps, how
to get disability, how to get help for housing, and funding for medication.”
For more information on Sunday’s
walk, visit: http://www.aac.org.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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