World AIDS Day Honorees Jeanne White Ginder and Laura Thomas

Thank you to everyone who participated and attended this emotional, sad, yet hopeful day. Please add your voice, send us your story, and links to videos and photos.

Musical Performances: Outstanding Female Jazz Vocalist, Paula West and International High School Ensemble—Voices+

Local Unsung Hero Award:
Laura Thomas—Deputy State Director, Drug Policy Alliance; co-chair San Francisco CARE Council

National Leadership Recognition Award:
Jeanne White Ginder—activist and mother of the late Ryan White and The late Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy—the lead Senate sponsor of the Ryan White CARE Act.

Browse through Fred McMullen’s moving, not-yet-edited, photo gallery of the day’s observance.

Victoria Kennedy accepting the award for Senator Kennedy:

Photos of World AIDS Day, watch for more to follow

World Aids Day at the Grove 2010 ABC News Coverage

Link to SFGate article on World AIDS Day

Congratulations to our Youth Scholarship Award Winners—Jeannel Miclat, Rosa Reyes, and Miguel Ochoa

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Kushaba Moses Mworeko from Uganda shares his story