This will be my eighth  year participating in AIDS/LifeCycle.

The past 20 years have afforded an aweful lot in the way of awareness, treatment, prevention, and support programs for those at-risk and for those living with HIV and AIDS. In 2017 the US government began terminating any funding for many these life changing/saving programs. Today the future of these programs is still in jeopardy. I'm going to continue to do my part to support these essential programs.

My late-partner James' and I created a training group in 2015 to focused on helping inexperienced AIDS/LifeCycle cyclists. In his honor I continue to facilitate the group. I do most of the planning and structuring of the training. With the help about half a dozen or so others we keep a group of about 25 new and returning riders encouraged and supported as we prepare to ride to Los Angeles.

I do all of this to end AIDS, for those than can't ride, for my loved ones who have lost so many due to this epidemic, and to make a difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS.

From June 5th through 11th, 2022, I'm cycling in AIDS/LifeCycle again. It's a 7-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

Thank you.
Love and hugs,

Tim Butler

Help me support AIDS/LifeCycle by giving what you can. We'll keep riding until AIDS and HIV are a thing of the past.

Your donations at work supporting the San Francisco AIDS Foundation: 

• $10 can help provide 143 condoms that the Stop AIDS Project will distribute.
  
• $25 can help a Financial Benefits counselor to assist one person in navigating the private and public benefits systems, including Medi-Cal, Medicare, CARE/HIPP, short-term disability, and Social Security.

• $100 can help provide the travel cost for a Stop AIDS Treatment Advocacy Coordinator to attend the medical appointments of 25 clients, providing moral support and to help clients advocate for themselves.
• $150 can help provide 1,000 syringes through the street-based Syringe Access Service.

• $175 can help provide case management for 15 HIV-positive clients who are homeless or at-risk for homelessness. 
  
• $250 can help provide ten Rapid HIV Antibody test to test ten people at Magnet, Stop AIDS, or other SFAF sites.
• $500 can help 15 people receive medical benefits counseling to obtain prescription drug assistance.
  
• $1,000 can help provide two Stop AIDS Community Education Forums where 150 men can learn more about HIV and how to live better and longer with HIV.