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AIDS Quilt Gets Role in "General Hospital"

June 21, 2001

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is making a return soap opera appearance today as ABC daytime commemorates the annual Day of Compassion. Eighty-eight panels of the 54-ton quilt will be displayed during the annual "Nurses Ball" on "General Hospital." "Whenever portions of the quilt are displayed, it has a profound impact on the people who see it," said Julie Rhoad, managing director of the Names Project Foundation.


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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
06.21.01; Gracie Bonds Staples

  
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This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
 

 

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