Crusaid is a United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 charity

Charitable organization

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 dedicated to helping poor and marginalised people affected by HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

 and AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

. Providing support, awareness, education

Education

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 projects and hardship funds, for the last two decades Crusaid has worked to enable individuals and communities to regain their dignity and improve their quality of life. Cruisaid is a registered charity No 1011718.

Set up in 1986 by a small group of friends, Crusaid was a direct response to the destructive nature of AIDS in the 1980s. Crusaid’s earliest grants were to projects such as in-patient hospital wards and helping with funeral expenses. Crusaid now funds prevention and education projects in the UK and Africa, including supporting outpatient clinics and back-to-work projects.

Crusaid's Walk for Life on 1 June 2008 was Europe

Europe

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’s largest HIV and AIDS walk. The event started and finished in Potter's Fields Park (next to Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge

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), visiting some favourite landmarks including the London Eye

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, Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

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 and the Millennium Bridge

Millennium Bridge

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.