After 30 summers of gathering and celebrating children with an HIV-positive status, Camp Heartland in Willow River, Minnesota is up for sale. Childhood HIV in the U.S. is almost non-existent, leading the camp to have less and less families to serve.
NEIL WILLENSON: …So the year we were founded, 1,630 children were born with HIV … it’s just a medical miracle 30 years later. There might be a handful or less in the US born. They can prevent mother to child transmission. So any founder dreams of the day that their charity can go out of business.
This is probably the best post I’ve seen on here.
Let’s go! There’s a future where HIV is totally eradicated and we can do it!
That will spark the summer of love 2.0. Might see an uptick in other STDs though
you’re so right, we should definitely do nothing.
What? How did you think I said that? My comment was a positive. Summer of love was awesome.
Sometimes humor doesn’t come across well to everyone online. I thought it was funny and upvoted :)
sorry, I read that as really puritanical
We already had a 2nd summer of love! In the UK though, not the US.
Such wonderful news!!
HIV/AIDS has been a death sentence for so long.
We have to keep supporting kids, but this is great news. Hopefully another charity can pick this up.
while this is obviously great news, HIV hasn’t been a death sentence in over a decade
