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World Aids Day Raises Awareness
The president of the HIV/ AIDS Task Force of Western Illinois says the disease is more accepted around the country than it has ever been before.

Lytle says Thursday's 23rd Annual World Aids Day was a day to raise awareness to those who carry what he describes as a "God-awful" disease.

Lytle tells WGIL the behavioral changes in health practitioners towards those affected has been the most gratifying to him over the last 30 years.

"WE've come a long way," he said. "I retired in 1999. I was the imaging administrator at Galesburg Cottage Hospital, and the attitude when I left Cottage in 99' had totally turned around from what it was in the early 1980's."

Victims, health officials, and supporters of the disease gathered outside the Knox County Health Department Thursday night to light a tree symbolizing the victims.

As an annual donation from the task force, Lytle presented a check worth $5300-dollars to Mike McGinn, CEO of Friends of People with AIDS in Peoria. It is to be used towards assisting HIV and AIDS victims.





(Top: Former HIV/ AIDS Task Force member Brenda Reynolds shares her perspective; Middle: Terry Avery is joined by his two sons as they commemorate the lighting of the tree with a song; Bottom: Mothers of past victims honor their sons by hanging a red ribbon on the tree; WGIL Photos and News Story by Kyle Schassburger)
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