AIDS Walk Washington

One in twenty adults in Washington D.C. is infected with H.I.V. Last Saturday, the District tried to do something about raising awareness. Participants put their feet down in an effort to stomp pout the virus during a 5K AIDS walk downtown.

Beginning at Freedom plaza near the Department of the Treasury, the route took participants down Pennsylvania Avenue, past the capitol and back. Upwards of 6,000 people attended the event according to its organizers, raining more than $1 million to benefit the Whitman-Walker Clinic, a non-profit community based provider of health care. D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty and Congresswoman Eleanor Norton Holmes spoke before the event, as did Chip Arndt, winner of CBS’s “The Amazing Race.”

The number of participants from GW was substantial with students from the College Democrats, the Student Global AIDS Campaign, the Public Health Student Association, the Organization of Latin American Students, and Allied in Pride all present at the march.

- Jesse Regis