Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA (CA) – For the second year in a row and in observation of October AIDS Awareness Month, the Santa Barbara-based ...

A color poster on glossy paper advertising the AIDS Memorial Quilt event. The poster front features a close up of the eye of a needle with a piece of red thread strung through it, resting on white ...

A massive memorial AIDS quilt, sponsored by the San Francisco Names Project, was displayed April 12 and 13, 1988 in Golden Hall at San Diego’s Civic Center downtown as part of a national tour ...

Home News News Detail 09/22/2011 The AIDS Memorial Quilt, a 10-year-old project to put a human face on a dreaded disease, will be on display at SUNY Cortland from Monday, Oct. 3, until Friday, Oct. 7.

The Atlanta-based foundation also revealed plans to send the quilt home to San Francisco under the stewardship of the National AIDS Memorial. Today, the quilt features more than 48,000 panels.

Spanning 1.2 million square feet, the quilt contains about 48,000 panels memorializing 125,000-plus victims of HIV and AIDS since 1980.

Currently stored in a warehouse in Atlanta, the quilt is set to go back on permanent display at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco this year – where it’ll be possible to view ...

Campaigner Ally van Tillo took charge of the UK-wide project in Edinburgh in the early days of the Aids epidemic in the late 1980s. He helped set up the Names Project UK after seeing the US version of ...

The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on display near the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. in October 1992. Then 21,000 panels, the quilt has more than doubled by 2019.

Its caretaker, the Names Project, has been based in Atlanta for the past 18 years. In an announcement Wednesday at the Library of Congress, Julie Rhoad, president and CEO of the Names Project, said ...