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United Press International; Monday December 1, 1997 - 2:16 PM EST
According to the Centers for Disease Control, of 239,000 people in the United States with AIDS, 3,450 of them are children. Children joined adults at City Hall Park in New York City today to read the names of children who have died of the disease.
Elsewhere across the nation AIDS victims were remembered in a variety of ways, from readings, candlelit vigils, and displays of panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
In Morgantown, W. Va., residents are writing messages about AIDS victims for the Tree of Hope. Each piece of paper is fashioned into a ring and the chain of links is draped on the tree.
Museums are supporting Visual AIDS' "Day Without Art" by shrouding artwork to honor artists who have succumbed to the illness, and several organizations are turning off the graphics on their Web sites.
In Boston anyone mentioning World AIDS Day is being allowed in free to the Museum of Science, where a local radio station is broadcasting live to raise money for an AIDS group.
The U.N. last week estimated that nearly 31 million people worldwide are infected with HIV.
Liz Tracey, a spokeswoman for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said World AIDS Day makes sure "we don't forget the very human faces behind (the disease)."
New York's Museum of Modern Art is using the Internet to develop a time capsule of rememberance for AIDS victims, inviting people to bring mementos, photographs and written memories or statements to be scanned in.
And AIDS activists are taking their battle to the Capitol steps via the Internet, launching the first-ever electronic "march" on Washington.
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