Face AIDS
Check out this great World AIDS Day post from our friends at FACE AIDS:
FACE AIDS is a network of students at over 180 college and high school campuses who are dedicated to fighting AIDS in Africa and promoting global health equity. Founded by three students in 2005, we come together because we fervently believe that if we build a broad-based movement of young leaders dedicated to social justice, we can eradicate this preventable and treatable disease.
While we strive to take meaningful action throughout the year, World AIDS Day is particularly important for our student chapters. It provides a clear time for us to come together in recognition of the social tragedies causing and caused by the AIDS pandemic and in celebration of the promise for a better future. For despite the statistics and stories of death and destruction, we believe that we can turn the tragedies of our world into a foundation for hope.
And so, on this World AIDS Day, 400 high school students and pediatric AIDS patients are gathered together in rural eastern Rwanda for the FACE AIDS Youth Forum, a powerful celebration of the resilience and potential of HIV-affected youth.
At the same time, thousands of miles away, students at Oregon State University are encouraging their peers to get tested for HIV. The University of Southern Maine chapter is hosting a benefit dinner. A team at the University of Wyoming is leading a campus-wide celebration of hope. Students at Stanford University are listening to a renowned child health expert at a photo exhibit.
The Tulane University chapter has put panels of the AIDS Quilt on display, is hosting a local speaker to talk about living with HIV, and is involved in an HIV/AIDS Music Project that the city of New Orleans is putting on to raise awareness. Their chapter leader Danielle was recently featured on ABC News to talk about their work. Thousands more young people are taking part in similar acts of solidarity through FACE AIDS chapters across the country.
Interested in finding or starting a FACE AIDS chapter on your campus? Visit http://faceaids.org to join the movement for global health equity.
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