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Monday, Jan 3 2005Washington Post Examines How Some HIV/AIDS Organizations Also Provide Services to Other GroupsHIV/AIDS organizations nationwide increasingly are providing social services -- including the provision of food, hou
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af1 ps say that their expansion has helped in fundraising efforts. Some groups that have diversified services include Washington D.C.-based Food Friends, Texas-based AIDS Foundation Houston, New York-based Latino Commission on AIDS and Georgia-based Project Open Hand. ResponseSome HIV/AIDS advocates have criticized the groups expansions, claiming that the 40,000 people who are diagnosed with HIV annually in the United States and the 18,000 U.S. patients who die of the disease every year will be shunted aside in the rush to diversify, according to the Post. Michael Petrelis, a San Francisco AIDS advocate, said that by diversifying, it seems like they re spreading themselves way too thin, especially since AIDS fu
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