In the Lwala area, approximately 1 in 4 people is infected with HIV. Whereas just 5 years ago, people in Lwala had limited access to health care, now nearly 1000 people are currently enrolled in HIV care through the Lwala Community Hospital.
World AIDS Day is held on December 1 each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate people who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day, and was inaugurated in 1988.
The Lwala Community Alliance is helping to host World AIDS Day events in Boston and Nashville to raise awareness and show support for people living with HIV. Please join us in recognizing that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.
BOSTON WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT
Join us for a dinner and presentation by Dr. Milton Ochieng’, co-founder of the Lwala Community Alliance. Milton will share his own experience of taking his parents’ death to AIDS as a call to provide care and treatment to thousands in his home community.
Date: Thursday, December 1
Time: Reception at 6:30pm, dinner at 7:00pm for pre-registered guests only
Presentation at 7:45pm, open to the general public
Location: Boston University, George Sherman Union, Faculty Dining Room, 5th Floor, 775 Commonwealth Avenue
Cost: Non-students – $39; Students – $15
Click here to register!
NASHVILLE WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT
The Lwala Community Alliance is one of 12 community partners organizing Nashville’s 2011 World AIDS Day event. World AIDS Day Nashville is a locally-produced multimedia presentation including live theater, music, dance, and film representing the personal experiences of people impacted by HIV and AIDS in Middle Tennessee and around the world. The program also features important information on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and research, as well as the local resources available to people living with HIV and AIDS.
This event is free and open to the public. There will also be free on-site, confidential HIV testing, HIV prevention materials, and door prizes. Thirty years of HIV…we ALL are affected. Please come out and show your support!
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011
Time: Doors open at 6pm; show begins at 7:00pm
Location: Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music, 2400 Blakemore Avenue
Free parking is available in South Garage on the corner of 24th Avenue and Children’s Way, across from Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital
For more information, click here.
