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Miami (USA), Apr 15 (EFE / EPA).- (Camera: Cristobal Herrera) Medical files, a ball signed by Magic Johnson, works of art, leaflets recommending safe sex, and thousands of other objects recall in the Museum of Coral Gables (Florida) another epidemic, that of AIDS, which since its inception 40 years ago has claimed more than 33 million lives worldwide.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION 'A MATTER OF TIME, EXAMINING 40 YEARS OF AIDS WHILE LIVING THROUGH A PANDEMIC' AT THE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM IN MIAMI, FLORIDA (US). SOUNDBITES OF YUNEIKYS VILLALONGA (IN SPANISH), CURATOR OF THE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM, AND SHED BOREN (IN ENGLISH), TEACHER AT STEMPEL COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK.TRANSLATION:Yuneikys Villalonga: "This is a memory project made by the community, it was exhibited for the first time in 1987 and it was exhibited in the Mall in Washington just a little bit to call attention to the need to do something about it, because more and more life was making a loss due to AIDS and it was like a demand to the government, to the institutions about the need to take action. ""Each one is divided into other small 3 × 6 foot panels that are about the size of a funeral box. In them, family, friends, lovers emblazoned with the names of the people they loved who lost, tried a bit capturing the essence of their personality, of the memories they had of them, is the challenge that has grown and grown and we are talking about tons and tons of this blanket that anyone can make, manufacture and send. Right now it is in Los Angeles, I was in different cities."
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