Details & Registration
Registration
Online registration will close at 8 pm on Thursday, May 1st, 2025. In-person registration will be available on the day of the event!
Shirts are available for individuals registered for the 5K or who donate $35 or more.
Saturday, May 3, 2025
- Registration: 8-9 am
- Kick-off: 9 am
Pierce Field – East Providence
201 Mercer Street
East Providence, RI 02914
Register as a solo runner or walker, and your donation helps ensure APRI can continue to provide services to those who need us most. (Help us raise additional funds as a runner or walker, click the link under “Make a Team” below.)
Course Map
Hope Harris Award
2025 Hope Harris Award Recipents
Russ and Beth Milham
This year we will be honoring Russ and Beth Milham, who have been involved with the AIDS Quilt since the 90’s. Beth first met the RI Chapter organizers in 1991. In 1992 she would go on to be the first volunteer chair for the first major RI display at Brown University. That same weekend they received their charter. It only took Russ a couple of more years to end up a full-fledged volunteer. This work is about more than showcasing the Quilt; Russ and Beth have taken Quilt panels into schools to use them as a teaching tool about HIV/AIDS. Like Hope Harris, their passions are around more than just HIV. They have been involved in advocacy around the LGBTQIA+ community, clean energy, climate change education, and other environmental issues.
AIDS Walk History
The AIDS Walk for Life was started by AIDS Project Rhode Island in the mid-1980s—part of a wave of grassroots fundraisers held across the country that was that raised money to help provide care and support to individuals suffering during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, when they were often without insurance, access to services, and/or dying alone because their families and communities had rejected them.
In the more than 30 years since the first AIDS Walk for Life, we have made great strides in the fight against HIV, and now, thanks to advances in medication, people with HIV are living longer, healthier lives.
That does not mean, however that HIV and AIDS have gone away. The virus may not make headlines much these days, but more than 1 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV. Every year, more than 30,000 people in the U.S. get HIV, and continued stigma against people living with the virus, gaps in education, and lack of connection to care and support services present enormous challenges.
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Race Results
Contact Us
For additional information please email Director of Development, Frazier Bell bellfr@familyserviceri.org
Please allow 1-2 business days for a response.
Vendor/Business Exhibitors
Organizations/Businesses interested in hosting a table at the Run/Walk for Life should complete the form below and submit payment to qualify. All exhibitors will need to bring a table and chairs, all are invited to bring a 10’x10′ pop-up tent.
Fees
- Regular Exhibitor: $100
- Nonprofit Exhibitor: $50