Positive getaways.
San Francisco-based Healing Waters (415-621-7529) offers low-cost rafting, kayaking Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. Kayaking is differentiated from canoeing by the fact that a kayak has a closed cockpit and a canoe has an open cockpit. They also use a two bladed paddle. Another major difference is in the way the paddler sits in the boat. , and camping expeditions for people with AIDS The People With AIDS (PWA) Self-Empowerment Movement was a movement of those diagnosed with AIDS and grew out of San Francisco. The PWA Self-Empowerment Movement believes that those diagnosed as having AIDS should "take charge of their own life, illness, and care, and to minimize or symptomatic HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. . Destination Foundation (415-577-7377), founded by Tim Hepworth in memory of his late partner, Jim, who died of AIDS complications in 1997, grants "dream trips" to people living with life-threatening illnesses. Located at Camp Makuleia on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii (pictured). Strength for the Journey (808-522-9555) is a spiritual retreat October 10-14 for people living with HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome .
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