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Questions Arise Over the Distribution of SF AIDS Walk Money

As thousands of people prepare to raise millions of dollars in this weekend's AIDS walk through Golden Gate Park, questions are surfacing over where, exactly, those dollars are going.

Last year, the AIDS walk raised $3.5 million, and the year before, just over $4 million. Its slogan says it's to benefit the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and local organizations, but according to an analysis by the Bay Citizen in the New York Times, most of the donations have gone to Pangaea international AIDS charity. The group was created by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation to concentrate on countries like Cambodia and China. This, while local non-profits were getting as little as a couple hundred thousand split dozens of ways. Click to Listen

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The foundation's interim head acknowledges they could do a better job explaining where the money is going so those who contribute, or walk to raise funds, don't expect that all the money is going to their local care facility.

According to the Times, local HIV workers are reluctant to openly criticize the foundation for fear of losing what financing they do get.

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