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Last year’s River Walk saw more participants than past years—a trend that is expected to continue.
Music to play during HIV walk
■ River Walk aims to raise
awareness that despite
better treatments, HIV and
Al DS a re fa r f rom el i m i nated
By Rory Carroll
Oregon Daily Emerald
This Saturday, the HIV Al
liance will hold its 14th annual
River Walk. The “walk for life”
will be a jaunt through Eugene
promoting awareness and sup
port for the alliance while catch
ing some great outdoor perform
ances.
Entertainment will be held at
four different locations along the
route. A steel drum and marimba
group called Island Jammin’ will
begin playing at 9:30 a.m. at Al
ton Baker park until the walk
starts at 10:30 a.m. As people go
over the DeFazio bridge, artist
Cole McBride will be playing
classical guitar. The walk will
continue into the downtown and
through Saturday Market. It
winds back to the River’s Edge
Plaza where Jackass Willy will be
playing rockabilly and bluegrass.
Then it’s on to the Autzen foot
bridge where the River Gypsies
will perform. The walk will fin
ish where it began at the Alton
Baker park where Kutsinhira, a
marimba and percussion band,
will perform until 12:30 p.m.
“There is a lot of entertain
ment going on in those four
places, plus what Saturday Mar
ket provides, just in their own
inimitable fashion,” David M.
Bernstein, River Walk 2000 coor
dinator said.
Darnell Mandelblatt, develop
ment director for the HIV Al
liance, said that the goal of the
walk is to spread the word that
the agency exists and to encour
age people to join in and be part
of the solution.
“It means stepping up to an
awareness of what it’s like for oth
er people to live with HIV. It does
n’t make them lepers, but it is a
disease to be lived with and that
our community can support them
through awareness,” Mandelblatt
said.
The HIV Alliance has been
around since 1985 when it was
called Shanti. According to Bern
stein, it is the second-largest HIV
support agency in Oregon. They
provide a variety of services for
those suffering with HIV or AIDS.
They provide full-service case
management, medical consulta
tion and health care.
There is a food program and a
needle-exchange program, and a
full education and prevention de
partment that offers programs like
Speakers in the Schools, where
HIV-positive speakers go to high
schools and middle schools, put
ting a face on HIV. The Acorn Cen
ter, another program.of the al
liance, provides meals and
emotional and social support for
those suffering with HIV.
“It’s an on-site facility where
meals are served. It’s not like a
meals on wheels thing. People
come in and eat family-style,”
Bernstein said.
The theme of this year’s River
Walk is to fight complacency and
spread the message that HIV and
AIDS have not gone away.
“It’s why we have pushed to get
our route downtown,” Bernstein
said. “To heighten visibility and to
( ( The crisis is the dis
ease itself. Transmission
rates continue to go up.
David M* Bernstein
River Walk 2000
coordinator 1
have more people see us and be
able to realize we’re around and
that we’re working and that this
disease isn’t over by a long shot.
Jim Shoemaker, client service
director for the HIV Alliance, said
that in recent years, the walk has
been a success because of the in
crease in community involve
ment.
“More and more we’re getting
a greater cross-section of the pop
ulation to walk,” Shoemaker
said. “That makes it clear that it
matters to everybody.”
Bernstein said people don’t re
alize that agencies like HIV Al
liance are serving more people
than ever. He said that he thinks
the complacency is due to the
new advances in treatments.
“I think a lot of it has to do
with the fact that there are drugs
that have changed HIV from an
absolute terminal disease to one
that is more likely a chronic,
manageable illness. People stop
dying,” he said.
The crisis was viewed as
death, not as disease, according
to Bernstein.
“The crisis is the disease itself.
Transmission rates continue to
go up.”
Bernstein added that less than
10 percent of the global HIV pop
ulation has access to new drugs.
“In the rest of the world — in
Africa, Asia and India -- they are
dying at ever increasing rates and
they are transmitting at ever in
creasing rates.”
Bernstein said thaticenters like
the HIV Alliance are busier than
ever because of lack of funding
from the government.
“We have to serve more people
with constantly failing federal
and foundational support,” Bern
stein said.
He said that people need to see
the walk because they can too
easily forget that the AIDS crisis
continues.
“It is a horrible disease to live
with. It has terrible side effects.
The medications can be horrify
ing and debilitating and damag
ing to the system. We’re nowhere
near a cure and very few can
safely say that they don’t have to
worry about this disease any
more -- they do,” Bernstein said.
He said that while AIDS suffer
ers might be dealing with the dis
ease just fine today, tomorrow it
might mutate into a form that is re
pellent to one of the drugs that
they are on.
He said that the drugs often
cause side-effects including heart
circulation problems and dia
betes.
Bernstein is optimistic that this
year’s walk will be a success.
“If we get decent weather, there
is a good chance that this will cer
tainly be bigger than the last few, ”
he said. “I think that there is a lot
of renewed excitement with the
changes and the going through
town.”
Mandelblatt said that she be
lieves that events like River Walk
will continue because of contin
ued support by the community
and by those inside the HIV Al
liance.
“We’ll be here for life and we’ll
be here for River Walk,” she said.
Those interested in raising
money for the HIV Alliance can
fill out a sponsor pledge list.
Contact the alliance at 342-5088
for a pledge sheet. Organizers
stressed that anyone is welcome
to walk to show support for the
cause, with or without pledges.