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AIDS activists this week asked President-elect Barack Obama to take action within his first 100 days in office to fight HIV/AIDS in America. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
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Local events for World AIDS Day
Monday, Dec. 1
• The Whitman-Walker Clinic holds its annual candlelight vigil at Bethlehem Baptist Church, 2458 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., SE, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
• The D.C. Different Drummers hosts “Songs for Life – World AIDS Day Concert,” a benefit for the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Us Helping Us and Metro Teen AIDS at 8 p.m. at the Harman Center for the Arts, 610 F St., NW. Tickets are available at 703-708-5008 or www.dcdd.org.
• Free, confidential HIV-testing will be available at the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center, 1701 14th St., NW, 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; at the Max Robinson Center, 2301 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., SE, 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; and at the Whitman-Walker Clinic of Northern Virginia, 5232 Lee Highway, Arlington, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Chase Brexton Health Services will be providing rapid HIV testing, 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at 1001 Cathedral St. in Baltimore.
Thursday, Dec. 4
• The D.C. Living Quilt launch raises awareness for the Southern AIDS Living Quilt (www.livingquilt.org), a web site that focuses on Southern women and HIV/AIDS. For venue and time, visit www.livingquilt.org/news.html.
Friday, Dec. 5
• Metro Teen AIDS hosts “Get Tested with Go Go,” an event for youth age 24 and under at the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center, 1100 Michigan Ave., NE. Music, free HIV testing and giveaways. The event is free, but there is a suggested donation of an unwrapped gift to USMC Toys for Tots. For more information: www.metroteenaids.org.
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it,” she said. “After the bill passed, Immigration Equality wrote a letter to HHS that about 180 organizations signed, urging them to move quickly on lifting the ban. Secretary Michael Leavitt wrote back and said they are working on it.”
Neilson said that she remains “hopeful that something will be coming imminently.”
“This administration hopes to completely lift the ban, and we’re hopeful it will happen in the next two months, before the current administration leaves power,” she said. “If for some reason that doesn’t happen by Jan. 20, it would be our first priority with the new administration.”
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