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After Hours Project Annual Awards Gala Russo's on the Bay 162-45 Cross Bay Blvd. Howard Beach, New York 11414
New York: Help for the At-Risk; Volunteers Fight HIV With Free Needles, Condoms. The van is part of the After Hours Project, a program started two years ago by Fernando Soto and Richard Curtis to stop the spread of AIDS in poor communities. Soto...
The group's van is parked halfway between the area's prostitution and drug market, which puts it right in the path of sex workers coming to and from. "Yo, you got condoms?" asks someone in a group passing by. One of the women wears her long hair in...
AHP emerged in 2002 to address the dramatic increase in HIV/AIDS in Brooklyn's low-income communities. Volunteers go out three nights a week between the hours of 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. They drive throughout targeted neighborhoods stopping at streets,...