Nature and Apathy Destroy AIDS Vigil

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Nature and Apathy Destroy AIDS Vigil

New York Times (12/22/95) P. A22
Ybarra, Michael J.

San Francisco's AIDS Vigil, a tent city pitched in front of the Federal Building ten years ago in protest of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's delays in reviewing treatments for HIV, has come to an end. The campers had withstood pressure from all sides to leave, yet stayed, distributing condoms, AIDS information, and bleach to drug users. But last week, strong winds demolished the tents, leaving the group, which had slowly diminished from 12 people to two men, huddled in a doorway. The campers said that as the years went by, indifference was the greatest problem. The weekly mass protests in the early days turned into yearly events and then stopped altogether. The tents, which had been flattened before and re-erected, were thrown away after this last storm.

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