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The 2024 Tallahassee AIDS Walk was a great success thank to the community supporting our rescheduled date! Thank you!

Information about the 2025 AIDS Walk will begin to be posted around early summer 2025. Stay tuned to our social media for updates and info! If you have questions, email development@bigbendcares.org or call (850) 656-2437 ext. 224.

If you purchased a shirt but couldn’t attend the walk, you can come to the Big Bend Cares office at 2201 S Monroe St. anytime M-F 8-5 and pick it up.

See some photos of the walk below, and be sure to check out the full album. Thanks to Winnie Miles and Bob O’Lary for capturing the evening of fun and learning!

Tallahassee AIDS Walk 2024

Big Bend Cares’ fall event, the Tallahassee AIDS Walk, draws hundreds of participants each year. This year’s walk will be held on Thursday, October 17th at 6:30pm at the Southwood Nature Trail. We are celebrating the 34th Annual AIDS Walk this year, working alongside partner organizations Neighborhood Medical Center and Bond Community Health Center.

Individual community members, school and university groups, companies, and faith groups can register to walk as individuals or as part of a team now by clicking the ‘Register’ button above. Walkers are encouraged to also become fundraisers themselves and help us reach our goal. After a memorial walk around the Southwood Nature Trail (starting at the intersection of Ivy Green Trail and Grove Park Dr.), we will gather to listen to speakers and music.

This event will be a celebration of all of those who have fought so hard to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS. All proceeds help Big Bend Cares in providing direct-care services for our clients and HIV prevention and education for the entire Big Bend region.

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Photos by Bob O'Lary

Why We Walk

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Did you know that in the Big Bend area, 1 out of every 172 adults is living with HIV/AIDS? In the African American community, it’s 1 out of every 72 adults. And, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, more than 1.1 million people in the US are living with HIV – with 1 in 7 of them not even aware that they have the disease!

Yes, the epidemic is far from over.

This is why clients, community members, staff and advocates of Big Bend Cares, Neighborhood Medical Center, and Bond Community Health Center (our 3 local HIV/AIDS service organizations) are walking together each year. We walk for the more than 100,000 people living with HIV in Florida. We walk to remember those who no longer can. We walk to remind you that you’re not alone. We walk for a nation. We walk to educate. We walk for change.

The Tallahassee AIDS Walk works to raise awareness and funds to support HIV programs in the community. All proceeds will benefit our 3 local HIV/AIDS service organizations.  We honor and remember friends and family, celebrate those who are living full lives with the virus, and recognize the work that still needs to be done.

Please walk with us!

Become a Partner

Big Bend Cares understands that besides offering an excellent value to your customers, you frequently extend your generosity to local nonprofits that provide services to families in need. Big Bend Cares invites you to partner with us for the 34th Annual AIDS Walk. Since 1987, Big Bend Cares has been the only AIDS Service Organization in our eight-county region, and since 1990, the AIDS Walk has been our biggest and most important awareness event.
As partner for Tallahassee AIDS Walk, your business will receive the attention of hundreds of participants, exposure in local media outlets, an aggressive social media campaign and a feature on Big Bend Cares’ website. We want to make the Walk as successful as possible for the benefit of our neighbors and their families who struggle daily with HIV/AIDS. We believe enlisting the support of top-notch organizations, like yours, will make that happen.

Please email development@bigbendcares.org or call (850) 656-2437 ext. 224 if you or your organization is interested in becoming a partner.

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Photos by Bob O'Lary

Volunteer

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Photos by Bob O'Lary

Thank you to all of the amazing volunteers that have registered this year, we have well-exceeded our capacity for volunteer help this year, and have closed volunteer registration. If you have questions about volunteering, email development@bigbendcares.org or call (850) 656-2437 ext. 224.

Directions & Parking

The quickest way to find the AIDS Walk venue is to enter the address for El Jalisco Southwood (3197 Merchants Row Blvd) into your map. AIDS Walk activities will be taking place in the lot behind the El Jalisco. This is where the music, food, and fun will be set up. Walk check-in, registration, and shirt distribution will all be located in the center of the setup. Parking will be in the lot across Ivy Green Trail.

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2024 Sponsors
Presenting Sponsors
Gilead
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Walmart
Silver Sponsors
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Bronze Sponsors
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