AEGiS-PRn: Los Angeles Candlelight Vigil Set to Honor Princess Diana's AIDS Efforts Friday, September 5th 7:30 p.m.; Vigil Includes Candlelight March Along Santa Monica Blvd. from Crescent Heights Blvd. to San Vicente Blvd.; Signing of AIDS Quilt Panels in Her Honor for AIDS Memorial Quilt.

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Los Angeles Candlelight Vigil Set to Honor Princess Diana's AIDS Efforts Friday, September 5th 7:30 p.m.; Vigil Includes Candlelight March Along Santa Monica Blvd. from Crescent Heights Blvd. to San Vicente Blvd.; Signing of AIDS Quilt Panels in Her Honor for AIDS Memorial Quilt.

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- As a small, but heartfelt gesture of appreciation for Princess Diana's early and ongoing compassionate work on behalf of people with HIV and AIDS, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation's largest HIV/AIDS medical provider, is coordinating an impromptu candlelight vigil and march to honor her memory. The vigil will take place Friday, September 5th, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Santa Monica Boulevard and Crescent Heights in West Hollywood, California, and will proceed approximately 1 mile west to San Vicente Blvd. where a brief memorial program will follow allowing people affected by AIDS the opportunity to honor and thank the late Princess for her selfless humanitarian efforts. A limited number of candles will be provided, but participants are urged to bring their own candles.

In addition, beginning at noon on Thursday, September 4th at "WEHO Lounge," 8861 Santa Monica Blvd. (AHF's unique coffee house/HIV information center and testing site), the public is invited to sign 3 foot by 6 foot canvas fabric squares in Diana's honor that will incorporated into panels for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Residents of Linn House and Carl Bean House -- AHF's two residential facilities for people with AIDS -- will contribute to the creation of these memorial panels.

"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from... (is) people feeling unloved," said Diana (at a London hospice in 1985). "I can give love... I'm very happy to do that, and I want to do that."

In addition, as an ongoing remembrance of her commitment to the fight against AIDS, AIDS Healthcare Foundation will bestow its Annual TREATMENT=LIFE Activism Award (to be presented for the second time this winter) in Princess Diana's memory.

For information on the vigil, please contact AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Ged Kenslea, at (213) 860-5225 or pager (213) 209-8123, or AHF's Richard Bondroff (213) 860-5261.

AHF serves over 5,000 Greater Los Angeles patients at 4 out-patient health care centers, 2 residential facilities; the WomensCare Center; through Positive Healthcare, the first AIDS specific managed care program in the nation; TREATMENT=LIFE Division, and through AHF's Research and Pharmacy Divisions.

SOURCE: AIDS Healthcare Foundation

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