Tonight, Housing Works joined a broad coalition of community organizations at New York City's AIDS Memorial for a candlelight vigil, rally, and march. This June 5th event marked HIV/AIDS Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day and commemorates a solemn milestone: the 45th anniversary of the CDC’s first report on the epidemic.

Organized as part of Seven Days of June—a decentralized, national campaign running from June 1 to June 7—tonights memorial showcased how the current administration’s HIV funding cuts are harming our local communities and threatens to undo decades of progress.. Seven Days of June unites advocates nationwide to demand elected officials improve healthcare affordability, sustain research, protect public health infrastructure, and ensure stability for vulnerable populations, including LGBTQIA+ communities and people living with HIV/AIDS.