'Our youth need us'

Effective AIDS prevention program closes doors after losing CDC funding

DETROIT- A dozen young Detroiters staged a protest Monday after an effective and popular program of AIDS Partnership Michigan was forced to close its doors. The program, REC Boyz - short for Real Enough 2 Change Boyz - lost its funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after 5 years of success.

Darius Hooper, a program coordinator at APM, said the program serves youth ages 1324 "who really have nowhere else to go but to us" for prevention services, case management and testing.

"We hope to tell the community we're here, we're not giving up and we're not going anywhere without a …