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AIDS Quilt

Visual display organized and maintained by the NAMES Project to honor and memorialize those who have died from AIDS. First begun by Cleve Jones of San Francisco in 1986 with a single panel and first displayed at the National Mall in Washington in 1987, the AIDS quilt now consists of over 44,000 panels bearing the names of men, women, and children who have died from the disease, each decorated with special symbols of that person's unique and irreplaceable life. Sections of the quilt are displayed at various locations throughout the US, with the quilt displayed in its entirety at special events in Washington. In 1989, a new memorial quilt was begun in Canada to honor Canadians who had died from AIDS, with 500 panels added as of this writing. Thirty-five other countries now have their own AIDS Quilt projects. In addition to honoring those felled by AIDS, the quilts also serve to maintain public awareness of the disease, and also to help fund research towards finding new treatments, a vaccine, and a cure.

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