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  • Cherry Fund Bears Fruit for Local Organizations

    By on July 8, 2014

    The Cherry Fund, the local not-for-profit all-volunteer organization that holds charity dance events to raise funds for HIV/AIDS service organizations, will host a beneficiary reception...

  • City Fund Takes Flak

    By on April 22, 2014

    A coalition of LGBT advocacy groups and service organizations released a statement Monday evening expressing their disappointment that no LGBT-specific groups were named among 58...

  • UHU To Unveil New Mobile-Screening Unit

    By on February 24, 2014

    Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc. (UHU), the local support group for HIV-positive black gay men, will unveil its new mobile health-screening unit Friday,...

  • Weekend of Awards

    By on October 16, 2012

    It was a busy weekend for Ron Simmons, president and CEO of Us Helping Us, People Into Living (UHU), the D.C. organization working to improve...

  • Conference Community

    By on July 19, 2012

    Without question, the International AIDS Conference, returning now to the United States for the first time since 1990, is a global affair. From far and...

  • World AIDS Day 2011

    By on December 1, 2011

    It is Dec. 1. It is time, again, to mark World AIDS Day. As with winter, soon to follow, one might say that AIDS is...

  • AIDS Walk's Top 25

    By on October 27, 2011

    Whitman-Walker Health, organizer of AIDS Walk Washington, on Tuesday announced not only the recipients of the event's three major honors, but a list of 25...

  • Addressing the Data

    By on August 11, 2011

    Local HIV/AIDS organizations responded this week to the Federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention's new study on HIV infections in the U.S. The study,...

  • Test Time

    By on June 22, 2011

    In any war, intelligence is crucial. Certainly the axiom holds in the District's war against HIV, where one of the most crucial bits of intelligence...

  • Monday Move

    By on May 18, 2011

    This year, organizers of DC Black Pride are trying something different. Instead of closing out the annual Memorial Day Weekend celebration with a large Sunday...

  • All of Us

    By on February 2, 2011

    There are different ways to mark the anniversaries of Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc. Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks formed the organization in 1985....

  • Back-n-Forth Budget

    By on December 15, 2010

    The D.C. City Council relieved some concern last week for HIV/AIDS organizations receiving city funding by voting to restore budget cuts proposed by outgoing Mayor...

  • Helping Us Grow

    By on November 10, 2010

    In the two decades since Us Helping Us was founded to help improve the health of African-American gay men, the organization's scope has grown, says...

  • Us Helping Us Stretching

    By on September 30, 2009

    Besides coffee and a shower, I don't have time for anything else in the morning before jumping into the daily grind. That's my excuse for...

  • White Attire Returns

    By on July 8, 2009

    From a backyard party to one of the District's most dazzling annual events, to something of a hybrid, Abdur-Rahim Briggs has been doing his part...