World AIDS Day and World AIDS Week at UNC 2009

WORLD AIDS DAY and WORLD AIDS WEEK at UNC 2009

***Visit  http://cfar-code.unc.edu for dates, times, and full descriptions ***

From performances to interactive social and scientific symposiums, free testing, film and art exhibits to a campus-wide TURN IT RED event, 5k Benefit Run and HIV/AIDS Charity Ball, UNC is recognizing World AIDS Day 2009 in a big way!

Throughout the UNC campus, World AIDS Week events will inspire, challenge, and engage us in the fight for health justice and honest information and dispel prejudice, fear, and cynicism about HIV and AIDS. The Center for AIDS Research at UNC has put together a web page with the full details of all UNC World AIDS Day/Week activities. http://cfar-code.unc.edu

Here are some highlights:

·         TURN IT RED (GlobeMed) event in the quad: Hot chocolate, cookies, 1,000-person AIDS ribbon formation featuring the Clefs and Loreleis.  Help make UNC history!

·         HIV testing: free, open to the public, confidential, bloodless, and painless

·         5k Run: Stop AIDS, Save Lives ASAP, charity and community run

·         Ball & Gala: Student Global AIDS Campaign-NAACP AIDS Charity Ball

·         Condom Olympics: games, trivia, prizes, confidential sex Q&A

·         Internationally celebrated AIDS Memorial Quilt on tour

·         Film screening, “Where Water Meets the Sky”

·         11th Annual CFAR AIDS Symposium

·         Events in The Pit throughout week

For more information, visit http://cfar-code.unc.edu or contact marie_garlock@dentistry.unc.edu or vanessa_white@dentistry.unc.edu, or call 966-5169.

SPONSORS and PARTNERS

UNC Center for AIDS Research, Campus Health, GlobeMed & HealthAlert Uganda (Benefited by TURN IT RED), Student Global AIDS Campaign, Debut of Minority Assoc. of Pre-Health Students, Student Global Health Committee, Advocates for Human Rights, GLBSTA, CUAB, Business School, Student Union Art Gallery, Campus Y, Global Ed Center, NAACP, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases, Millennium Village Project, OASIS, BSM, UNICEF at Carolina, The AIDS Memorial Quilt/The Names Project Foundation, UNC's Premiere Music and Performance Groups, UNC CFAR's Community Outreach Dissemination and Education Office.

WORLD AIDS DAY 2009: UNIVERSAL ACCESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.