DENVER -- Development in Gardening (DIG) is offering its supporters a unique way to give holiday gifts, by donating to the DIG garden on behalf of loved ones.

By making a donation to DIG, contributors will be able to help fund a number of sustainable gardening projects that will improve the nutrition and health of HIV-affected and at-risk populations.

Holiday donations starting at $10 can make a difference in these communities by providing vegetable seeds, building gardens, purchasing tools and installing water systems.

A team of scientists at the Center for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) found that two South African women infected with HIV were able to produce antibodies that neutralized and killed 88% of known strains of the virus.

Penny Moore, one of the lead scientists of the study published on Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine, said: ‘We're hoping we can use this information to develop a vaccine that prompts the body's immune system to make broadly neutralising antibodies’.

SAN DIEGO -- Mama’s Kitchen will host a kickoff party for volunteers to launch the eighth annual Mama’s Pie in the Sky Thanksgiving Bake Sale tonight at the organization's headquarters in City Heights.

Volunteers will be selling holiday pies as individuals and teams, in an effort to raise money for the HIV/AIDS assistance program.

Pie sellers have been set with a goal of raising more than 6,000 pies over the course of a six-week sales period, hoping to raise $125,000 to pay for nearly 40,000 meals.

SAN DIEGO – With more than 10,000 walkers and runners expected to participate in Sunday’s AIDS Walk & Run San Diego, there are just as many – if not more – reasons why people have decided to join in this year’s event.

Sally Hall, owner of online LGBT media site That’s So Gay Live, is walking because she loves.

Community member Jasen Sansever is walking for the people he loves who he has lost and the people who are still here today living with HIV or AIDS.

Activist and photographer Big Mike Phillips is walked for those he has lost to AIDS as a way of honoring their lives.