Participation in the annual San Francisco AIDS Walk has declined. Organizers say that's not such a bad thing.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Sunday morning, people gathered for the 38th annual
has fallen out of public view and participation in the walk has declined. Organizers say that's not such a bad thing.Each year a tiny portion of the Walk understand why they're really there. This was the first time Ayden Shupe had seen the panel for his uncle Donald who died in 1988 when Ayden was only 3 years old.'I was so lost in my years coming up -- when I came out -- and was just discovering myself because I didn't have anyone that I knew like me,' Ayden said. 'I discovered why he died and that we were the same. It was just losing that mentorship and that happened for a lot of people.
Walk has funded over the years. Now, he said, older HIV patients are suffering organ damage from early experimental therapies but he understands that less urgency in the public will mean less participation in the walk.'But it's still here and I'm moved,' Rivera-Hart said. 'I'm encouraged that people are still showing up because, like I said, if there weren't HIV services, I wouldn't be here.
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