A Columbia Woman is CNN’s Hero of the day. The concern about HIV/AIDS lead the 70 year old to hand out condoms, Bambi Gaddist started handing out the contrceptives nearly 20 years ago. She travels around areas in South Carolina with a large white RV.
With “GET TESTED” written in bold letters on its side, the camper van is the mobile unit of the South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council, a nonprofit that Gaddist helped start and has headed since 1995.
The only unit of its kind in South Carolina, the van brings confidential HIV testing and information to communities across the state. Since 2000, Gaddist’s organization has provided HIV tests to more than 8,600 people, free of charge.
Gaddist says the face of AIDS has changed since the mid-1980s, when she helped run one of the first grass-roots AIDS awareness campaigns in Columbia, South Carolina, while pursuing her doctorate in public health.
Source: cnn.com via politisite
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