Kevin Harris has served as a member of the Community Advisory Board of the Vaccine Trials Unit. Kevin was a cop in New Jersey before moving to Seattle several years ago. His focus is now social service, providing information to the community, particularly at-risk individuals, youth, and young adults. This is a community which is usually not provided with choices, but is instead dictated to. This is an option for people of color.
People volunteer for many reasons.
Many volunteers have seen the disease close-up, through the illness of a family member or loved one. To many people, it seems like one way to make a difference. I may not be out there marching or taking care of someone with HIV, but I am doing my own part. I am doing what I can do here and now to put an end to this disease. I thought about how polio vaccine was developed, how those volunteers might have felt.