A Resting Place, At Last

Two decades ago on Dec. 1, the first World AIDS Day drew attention to the global epidemic. Within two years, D.C. family doctor David Hilfiker, who had been working and living with the homeless, opened Joseph's House in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., after noticing that an increasing number of them had been diagnosed with HIV.

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