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The Associated Press Sunday, October 6, 1996
Mike Householder, Associated Press Writer
Organizers estimated that more than 15,000 people participated in the 10th annual AIDS Walk Washington, which began and ended at the Ellipse between the White House and the Washington Monument. The walk is the largest fundraising event in the District of Columbia, but similar events are held in major cities across the country.
Tipper Gore, the vice president's wife and the walk's honorary chairwoman, sent the walkers on their way with an appeal to keep up the search for a cure to the disease that has killed 300,000 people in the United States.
"The fight is not over until all our loved ones are safe," she said.
Those who traveled the walking tour's full 6.2 miles raised more than $2 million for AIDS programs at the Whitman-Walker Clinic, which provides housing, medical and other forms of care for Washington-area AIDS patients.
Reports just out show the District of Columbia area, where AIDS is the third highest cause of death, is number one in the nation in the incidence of new AIDS infections.
Tourist Annie Davis, of Melbourne, Australia, who said she has several friends living with HIV and AIDS, walked in the march. "I think this is great," she said. "You get people acknowledging AIDS, and that's what you want."
Many participants wore T-shirts and held banners in remembrance of loved ones lost to AIDS. One family wore black T-shirts with "For David" in red lettering.
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