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People
Paddle
for AIDS - FAQ
San Francisco 2008
A
Paddling FUNraiser
Sunday, May 4, 2008
10am - 1pm
South Beach
Harbor at
Pier 40
San Francisco, California
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Hosted by
Healing
Waters
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People
Paddle
was created in 2006 by a bunch of kayaking fanatics and experienced
volunteer event managers to be a sustainable, portable kayak-borne
fundraiser, flexible enough to raise money for any cause, appealing
enough to be adopted by any kayak outfitter as a proven fundraiser.
Our first People Paddle on September
17, 2007 was hosted at San Francisco's historic South Beach Harbor
& Pier 40. This innagural event featured 16 participant nonprofit
organizations, recruiting
73 kayakers to paddle on the one of the most gorgeous days in Northern
California history.
April 15, 2007 ushered in our
second year, our next People Paddle is launched as "People Paddle for AIDS".
Hosted by our partner Healing Waters, with gear provided by City Kayak,
featured 117 kayakers, partnering with at least 20 AIDS Service
Organizations, all of whom
will be recruiting paddlers to raise money for their cause.
Now in our third year, our biggest People Paddle yet is launched as "People Paddle for AIDS". Again
hosted by partner Healing Waters, with gear provided by City Kayak and
several other outfitters, partnering with up to 30 AIDS Service
Organizations, and adding a big after-party/festival on South Beach
Harbor Park (next to AT&T Park.) Join up to 200 kayakers and
outrigger canoeists on San Francisco's biggest and most colorful
paddlecraft fundraiser ever!
A fourth People Paddle is being planned for June 14/15 in Foster City,
California. Dubbed "People
Paddle for the Planet" we will recruit 100+ paddlers to raise
pledges for dozens of Northern California environmental causes.
Stay tuned for details.
Don't know how to kayak? You're in good company: most
participants have never been in a kayak. No worries: we offer
training classes to show you how to paddle before you hit the water.
Kayakers launch from Pier 40 and outriggers launch from Pier 54.
If conditions allow, we will paddle up under the Bay Bridge then into
McCovey Cove and back to Pier 40, or if conditions aren't perfect,
we'll paddle directly into McCovey Cove, then back to Pier 40.
Either way, all kayaks and outriggers will raft up in McCovey Cove for
the mother of all kayak photo ops from Lefty O'Doul Drawbridge. After
the paddle, join us for our big awards ceremony and after-party
at Pier 40 and South Beach Harbor.
The best part is the paddler gets to select the AIDS Service
Organization (ASO) for whom they will raise pledges. Healing
Waters applies 15% of all pledges and registration fees to cover
insurance/permits/other expenses. 85% of pledges goes directly to
the listed AIDS Service Organization selected by the paddler.
Everybody wins!
So please join us. Whether by paddling with us on May 4, or
sponsoring
your favorite kayaker, or just coming out and cheering us on as we
fight AIDS.
Peace to All
People Paddle
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HIV/AIDS Facts and Figures: An
Overview
In San Francisco...
- Almost 19,000 people are living
with HIV/AIDS.
- Nearly 27,000 people have been
diagnosed with AIDS since the epidemic's beginning; over 18,000 people
have died from AIDS.
- It is estimated that 1,000 people
will become newly infected with HIV this year.
- Nine out of ten HIV infections
occurs in gay men.
- Of
those people in San Francisco currently living with AIDS, 65% are
White, 15% are Latino, 14% are African American, 5% are Asian//Pacific
Islander, and fewer than one percent are Native American.
In California...
- More than 151,000 Californians are
living with HIV/AIDS. The
number of people living with HIV is at its highest point since the
beginning of the epidemic.
- More than 144,000 people have been
diagnosed with AIDS since the epidemic's beginning; about 83,000 have
died from AIDS.
- It is estimated that 9,000
Californians will become newly infected with HIV this year.
- California ranks second in the
nation in cumulative AIDS cases, surpassed only by New York.
- HIV/AIDS
has had a particularly severe effect on California's gay community,
with 74% of all cases occurring among gay and bisexual men; nationally
it is 58%.
- Of those people diagnosed with
AIDS since the
beginning of the epidemic: 56% have been among Whites, 23% have been
among Latinos, 18% have been among African Americans, 2% have been
among Asian/Pacific Islanders and less than 1% among Native Americans.
In the United States...
- There are approximately 1.2
million people living with HIV/AIDS
in the United States. It is estimated that a quarter of them don't know
it.
- Since the start of the AIDS
epidemic, 1.5 million
Americans have been infected with HIV and more than 550,000 have died
of AIDS.
- At least 40,000 more people are
infected each year,
with young people, men who have sex with men, and communities of color
most heavily affected.
- African Americans account for 50%
of new HIV infections, although they comprise only 12% of the
population.
- Black women account for 67% of new
AIDS cases reported in women.
- Estimated
deaths among Latinos with AIDS rose 17% from 1999 to 2003. During the
same period, deaths among whites with AIDS declined 18%.
- From 2000 through 2003, the rate
of HIV diagnosis among Asian/Pacific Islander males increased almost
40%.
- At least half of all new
infections are among people under the age of 25.
In the World...
- A total of 39.5 million people now
live with HIV/AIDS
- 2.2 million of them are under the
age of 15
- In 2006, an estimated 4.3 million
people were infected with HIV
- 530,000 were under the age of 15
- Every day 12,000 people contract
HIV -- 500 every hour.
- In 2006, 2.9 million people died
from AIDS, 380,000 of whom were under the age of 15. That's one child
dying per minute.
Data Sources:
San Francisco: San Francisco
Department of Public Health, Quarterly AIDS Surveillance Report,
December 2006.
SFDPH, 2005 Annual Report HIV/AIDS
Epidemiology.
California:
California Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS, Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Surveillance Report, December 31, 2006.
CDHS,
Office of AIDS, California HIV Prevention Indicators: Brief Report #3,
Universitywide AIDS Research Program, December 1, 2005.
United States: U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2005
(Vol. 17).
World: Joint United Nations Programme
on AIDS (UNAIDS), AIDS Epidemic Update, December 2006.
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