JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 December 1 is World Aids Day. For the 26th consecutive year, special quilts are being put up inside Jacksonville City Hall to mark the day. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s all meant to commemorate those who lost their lives to HIV\/aids. <\/p>\n
Quilts are on full display, honoring those children who passed away from HIV\/AIDS. <\/p>\n
Other quilts were also displayed, two of them having a special connection to Jacksonville. <\/p>\n
Alice Huntley and Angela Nelson have been working for a year on a special project designed for the Aids Memorial Quilt.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a> <\/p>\n Monday, for World Aids Day, they brought the quilt panels to City Hall to be placed on display with many other quilts honoring those who died of aids\/HIV. <\/p>\n \u201cInside of the quilt is filled with roses, hearts, and cats,\u201d Angela Nelson said. <\/p>\n Those details added are there for their friend Evelyn Phillips, whom they called Peaches. <\/p>\n Her friends say she was a local advocate for those living with HIV. Peaches passed away in 2009, but before that, she started a support group. Another of the panels displayed with the Jacksonville connection was made for a local advocate named Kat. Now those quilts will travel to California to get certified. <\/p>\n \u201cWe may not see them back here for 5 to 10 years because then those quilts will travel throughout the world,\u201d Justin Bell, CEO\/founder of Friends of the Quilt Jacksonville, said. <\/p>\n Bell said when the quilt display originally started, they didn\u2019t think they needed a place like City Hall to display it. As many thought there would be a cure by now. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact is, it\u2019s still happening,\u201d Bell said. <\/p>\n While Duval\u2019s HIV infection rate has trended downward in the last 20 years, it\u2019s still above the state\u2019s average, according to the Florida Department of Health stats. <\/p>\n Organizers say days like today draw awareness. They hope events like this lead to more people getting tested. <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re talking about 1 in 7 people living who don\u2019t even know they are positive,\u201d Mohammed Reza, M.D., at REZA Health said. <\/p>\n They will have the quilts on display until December 4th. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 December 1 is World Aids Day. For the 26th consecutive year, special quilts are being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[643,2872,39562,39563,4535,10704,23732,794,39564,39567,39566,116,118,117,6489,39565,634,115,3880,39561],"class_list":["post-67934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news_jack","tag-ai","tag-alice_huntley","tag-angela_nelson","tag-california","tag-cat","tag-city_hall","tag-duval","tag-evelyn_phillips","tag-florida_department_of_health","tag-friends_of_the_quilt_jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jessica_salinas","tag-justin_bell","tag-local","tag-news","tag-peaches","tag-world_aids_day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}