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In a move designed to achieve bureaucratic efficiencies and improve HIV/AIDS advocacy and prevention efforts, two major social-service groups -- AIDS Project Rhode Island and Family Service of Rhode Island -- this morning announced that they have merged.

AIDS Project Rhode Island will now be known as “AIDS Project Rhode Island, a division of Family Service of Rhode Island,” leaders of both groups said at a news conference in the City Hall office of Providence Mayor David Cicilline.

“This is a win-win situation for both of us,” said Sue Johnson, a board member of AIDS Project Rhode Island. Cicilline, a former chairman of the APRI board, joined discussions that led to the merger.

Family Service CEO Margaret Holland McDuff said the merger will provide a “platform” on which to improve HIV/AIDs prevention and advocacy efforts. Although treatments developed in the last decade extend the life of people with the disease, McDuff reminded those at the conference that the disease has not gone away.

“It’s still, unfortunately, alive and ‘well’ in Rhode Island,” McDuff said.

-- Journal staff writer G. Wayne Miller

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carol anderson said:

Its been 20 yrs since I lost my son Peter Anderson from AIDS..He had a nice article written about him in the Sunday Providence Journal. It used to hang in the RI projrct office.. Maybe no one there remembers him ...There was also a sketch of his grandfathers barn in the article . Sketch from his bedroom window by a journal artist..Would love to hear from your group..He had a terrific Buddy named Ken Barton.. Hope someone remebers this era ..

Link | October 21, 2008 3:51 PM
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