AIDS Walk 2022 (image credit - CFJC Today)

By Michael Reeve

AIDS WALK

ASK Wellness holds 2022 AIDS walk

Sep 29, 2022 | 4:12 PM

KAMLOOPS — Thursday morning (Sept. 29), ASK Wellness Society held its annual AIDS Walk on the North Shore. The short walk was followed by a BBQ lunch by donation to help raise money for the society’s health navigation blood-borne infection program, which supports people living with HIV and AIDS.

Cookie Reimer has been volunteering at the event in Kamloops for more than 30 years and was happy to be back at the walk after the past two years of COVID-19 cancellations.

“It’s really important to have these events for awareness, a lot of people think AIDS has just gone away. It hasn’t. It’s simply that there are meds, and active work involving aids research. But it hasn’t gone away,” said Riemer.

This year’s donations will also help fund the shop program to helps marginalized women.

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ASK Wellness began as the AIDS Society of Kamloops back in 1992, returning to their roots every year with the AIDS Walk remains important to the staff.

“With the grassroots as the AIDS Society of Kamloops it is so important to get back to where we started. To have community partners, to get together, to gather and let everyone HIV and AIDS are still very prevalent. AIDS is not as common here in our western world but it still affects so many people world wide,” said Hamilton.