By JOE SEGURA | joe.segura@presstelegram.com | Press-Telegram | PUBLISHED: March 3, 2014 at 8:18 p.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 3:33 a.m.
LONG BEACH>> When Christ Chapel’s AIDS Food Store opened in the mid 1980s, its founders saw a big need to provide food for AIDS and HIV patients.
Most patients were too ill to work and had no means of support. Many were not living long.
Since then, however, with advances in medicine, there has been a change in life expectancy for those infected, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be able to count on getting a mix of groceries from the store at 3935 E. 10th St.
“Long Beach has a high rate of new infections for HIV,” store president John Newell said. “And there’s still a need to help those who cannot provide food for themselves.”