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A PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE RESIDENCE FOR ELDERLY SINGLES, ELDERLY COUPLES, AND FAMILIES LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS, WITH THEIR DEPENDENT CHILDREN.
For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat . . . I was a stranger and you invited Me in . . . I was sick and you looked after Me . . . Matthew 25:35-36
Twenty plus years ago, it began as a ripple, one that would soon become a tidal wave. On June 5, 1981, an odd but troubling reference appeared in a journal published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), describing a rare form of pneumonia afflicting five gay men. By year's end, their ailment would be known worldwide as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - or AIDS.
 For many people who lived in the 80s with the disease, AIDS was almost always a death sentence. We watched as many of our friends and neighbors, lovers and partners, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and our children die painful and horrible deaths. Twenty plus years later, the disease is different. While AIDS remains a formidable foe and is the number one killer of people of color (84.5% of NYC's new HIV cases are among African-Americans, Latinos and Asian/Pacific Islanders) in the United States, advances in drug therapies have turned AIDS into a chronic, manageable disease although one without a cure and one where an early death remains a real prospect. Today, people look forward to living longer rather than counting down the days to the end of their lives. This is what Edwin's Place is all about -- a place of hope, a place to live with dignity.
Who
was Edwin?
View or add the name of your loved one to our AIDS Memorial Wall.
If so, call the CDC National STD and AIDS Hotline, Toll free at: 1-800-342-AIDS.
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