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Former Us Helping Us leader Ron Simmons dies at 70

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Ron Simmons, an assistant professor at Howard University’s School of Communications before serving for 24 years as executive director of the D.C.

AIDS service organization Us Helping Us People Into Living, died May 28 at George Washington University Hospital from complications associated with prostate cancer.

He was 70. Simmons has been credited with playing a key role in transforming Us Helping Us from a volunteer support group for black gay men with HIV in 1992 into a nationally recognized

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