When people are taken care of emotionally, they’re better able to cope with their medical care needs. Through the HIVE program (HIV-Elders), APLA Health is able to give over 500 MSM age 50+ social support, life skills and medical care to help them live fuller lives.

“First rate primary medical care in people aging with HIV should address more than lab reports, especially in this time of yet another frightening pandemic. In my experience the providers at APLA Health encourage patients to be open about their emotional as well as physical health,” said Dr. Michael Gottlieb, APLA Health provider and, in 1981, he was the first person to describe the disease that would later be defined as AIDS.

HIVE gives men a safe space to get in touch with their emotions, to stop self-isolating and to talk about their health. When you raise funds for Support, you’re helping programs like HIVE expand their footprint and touch more lives in LA County.
What to do this week
Submit your story! We all Walk for a reason and for our digital walk it’s more important than ever to make your story heard. Who inspires you to Walk? What’s your personal participation history? Have an amazing memory from a past AIDS Walk you just have to share? We welcome all stories about the people and causes that have moved you to get with us this year.
Sarah Murray
Director of AIDS Walk Los Angeles

Meet Sarah, our Director for AIDS Walk Los Angeles. She has been involved in AIDS Walks around the country since she was eighteen—starting with AIDS Walk Phoenix, budding to include AIDS Walk San Francisco, New York, and of course LA.

“I wear a lot of hats. I am Chican@, born and raised in LA. My family has been here for about four generations. Several of us were amongst those displaced in Chavez Ravine by Dodger Stadium. I am also a queer person. Fighting HIV is important to me because all of my communities, it hits us harder than others. It shouldn’t. I am HIV-negative, but I understand discrimination, and how that can feel. I Walk year after year to show up for my fellow Angelenos and remind them: your HIV status does not determine your worth.”