About 100 AIDS
activists in Salt Lake City on Saturday displayed 8,500
shoes in the city's Library Square, each one
representing a person who dies of AIDS each day
worldwide, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.
"This display is a brilliant, powerful, and sobering
symbol" that the global and domestic AIDS
pandemics continue to spread, said state senator Scott
McCoy, who spoke at the rally. "We cannot let up for
one second the fight to end HIV/AIDS."
The activists
called on Utah lawmakers to approve $500,000 to provide
anti-HIV drugs to an estimated 1,600 HIV patients in Utah
and to boost spending for HIV-prevention efforts in
the state. The rally was held by local AIDS groups in
conjunction with the national Campaign to End AIDS, an
organization sponsoring several caravans across the United
States that will converge in Washington, D.C., on
November 5 for five days of rallies, meetings, and
lobbying events with lawmakers and Bush administration
officials. (Advocate.com)
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