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Tennessee: 2,000 Take Strides in Fight Against AIDS

October 14, 2005

On Oct. 8, 2,000 people participated in a 2.5-mile AIDS Walk sponsored by Nashville CARES at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall. Co-chairpersons country singer Kathy Mattea and Tara Burns, Miss Tennessee 2005, entertained the crowd. Nashville CARES, middle Tennessee's leading community-based AIDS service organization, assists more than 1,800 HIV-positive patients in the metro Nashville area. The agency annually educates more than 40,000 adults and youth about prevention. The group's HIV coordinator, Dwayne Jenkins, said meeting this year's goal of $140,000 seemed possible.

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Adapted from:
Tennessean (Nashville, Tenn.)
10.09.2005; Terrance Dean

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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