APLA Health is meeting the demands of a COVID-19 world by working with Los Angeles County and partners to expand our testing services, implementing drive through and walk-up testing for our patients and clients.

Similar to HIV, the best way to stop the spread of COVID-19 is prevention and testing. The more people who are tested for active infections, the more precautions they can take to stop its spread. It also allows us to understand more about the virus and stop it.

However, Black and Latinx communities are being impacted more than other communities and continue to highlight health disparities we knew existed in Los Angeles. Watching HIV spread through Los Angeles County, APLA Health that these health disparities already existed. That is why we opened clinics in Willowbrook, DTLA, South LA, and Long Beach.

We continue to grow our footprint and provide trusted services until everyone in Los Angeles is able to get healthcare. Your support during AIDS Walk will get us closer to our goals.

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.”