U. to offer free HIV testing today
Noura Choudhury
Issue date: 11/30/07 Section: Campus News
The Queer Community Committee, a QA subcommittee, played a role in fundraising and advertising for the free HIV testing day, said Alex Morse '11, the council's newly elected chair.
QA initially requested funding from the Undergraduate Finance Board for the event but was denied because the UFB designated HIV testing as a student service. QA has co-sponsored the event in the past with GAIA and will continue to do so, Morse said.
Tomorrow GAIA, along with Brown University AIDS Program and Center For AIDS Research, will also host the World AIDS Day Symposium featuring speakers Stephen Lewis, Judy Lieberman and Leigh Blake in MacMillan 117.
Lewis is the former U.N. Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, and Blake is the founder of the Keep a Child Alive Foundation, with which the Brown chapter of GAIA is affiliated. Lieberman is the director of the Division of AIDS Department at Harvard Medical School.
Each has performed extensive research, advocated or otherwise encouraged awareness of the AIDS pandemic and will be honored at the symposium with GAIA's Hope is a Vaccine Award.
QA initially requested funding from the Undergraduate Finance Board for the event but was denied because the UFB designated HIV testing as a student service. QA has co-sponsored the event in the past with GAIA and will continue to do so, Morse said.
Tomorrow GAIA, along with Brown University AIDS Program and Center For AIDS Research, will also host the World AIDS Day Symposium featuring speakers Stephen Lewis, Judy Lieberman and Leigh Blake in MacMillan 117.
Lewis is the former U.N. Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, and Blake is the founder of the Keep a Child Alive Foundation, with which the Brown chapter of GAIA is affiliated. Lieberman is the director of the Division of AIDS Department at Harvard Medical School.
Each has performed extensive research, advocated or otherwise encouraged awareness of the AIDS pandemic and will be honored at the symposium with GAIA's Hope is a Vaccine Award.