STOP AIDS: KEEP THE PROMISE - LEADERSHIP
Global theme
RESPECT & PROTECT
UK theme
WORLD AIDS DAY@ LSHTM
19882008
a week of events at the
LondonSchool of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
to mark the
20th World AIDS Day
organised by
three DFID Research Programme Consortia
involved in HIV/AIDS and Sexual & Reproductive Health
Evidence for Action RPC
Realising Rights RPC
SRH & HIV RPC
in collaboration with
LSHTM students
LSHTM Library & Archives Service
LSHTM Gender Violence & Health Centre
Display on World AIDS Day HIV Research and Treatment
Annual display on World AIDS Day and the work of research programmes at the School involved in HIV/AIDS
LSHTM Students will be selling redribbonsin support of the Terence Higgins Trust
on 1st, 2nd and 3rd Decemberbetween 8.30-10.30a.m., 12.00-2.00p.m. and 3.30-5.30p.m.
Monday 1st December to Friday 5th December
Area outside Refectory and StudentsCommon Room
Basement, LSHTM, Keppel Street
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“Have-Your-Say-About-HIV/AIDS-Wall”
Idea and message board
What are your thoughts and views on the current HIV/AIDS crisis?
Do you have a personal experience with HIV/AIDS that you would like to share?
Want to pay homage to a friend, colleague, family member, or loved one affected by HIV/AIDS?
Visit our wall outside the Refectory at any time throughout the week of LSHTM World AIDS Day events towrite your message on a red paper ribbon and read what others wrote.
One ribbon, one commitment...
Monday 1st December to Friday 5th December
Area outside Refectory and Students Common Room
Basement, LSHTM, Keppel Street
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“Remembering World AIDS Day- an Exhibition of Material from the Archives”
Organised by LSHTM Library and Archives Services
An exhibition of material held in the LSHTM Archives which relates to AIDS awareness and the campaign to educate people across the world during the early decades of the AIDS epidemic.
The exhibition comprises posters from all over Europe which were intended to promote awareness of protective sex and the transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus. We are also displaying images of objects used for the same purposes such as badges, brooches, postcards and condom packs.
The material is from the 1980s and 1990s and was originally collected by the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health at LSHTM.
Monday 1st December to Friday 5th December
Library Foyer, LSHTM, Keppel Street
“HIV/AIDS Prevention Gaps:Whose responsibility? Whose role?”
Introductory talk to launch World AIDS Day events at LSHTM
Dr Philippe Mayaud
Reader in Infectious Diseases & Reproductive Health
Clinical Research Unit - ITD
LSHTM
Followed by
“Corn, Cattle, Coconuts and Condoms”
Video documentary (35 minutes)
“Too often, participants in research are not involved in the dissemination process and the uptake of research results. An innovative approach was taken by Dr Monique Oliff (RHRU,Johannesburg) in bringing the results of her research on existing reproductive health services (including STI and HIV/AIDS) in Tanzania to the decision-makers.
The film "Corn, Cattle, Coconuts and Condoms" is a possible example of how researchers may want to disseminate their findings whilst attempting to hold decision makers accountable and committed. Come and listen to the voices of the community talking to - and challenging - their leaders!”
Monday1st December
1.00p.m.
BennettRoom (LG80), LSHTM, Keppel Street
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“HIV/AIDS: Four Global Perspectives”
Short talks by LSHTM research fellows and students chaired by
Dr Shabbar Jaffar
Reader in Epidemiology
Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit – EPH
LSHTM
Title t.b.c.
Ms Johanna Hanefeld
Research degree student
Health Policy Unit – PHP
LSHTM
“TKMOAMS: A Community Based Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Namibia”
Ms Emma Richards
MSc Public Health Student
LSHTM
“Hope, Expectation and HIV Treatment in a Transitional Setting: a Qualitative Case Study”
Ms Sarah Bernays
Research Fellow
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour
Public & Environmental Health Research Unit – PHP
LSHTM
“Global HIV/AIDS and Visual Impairment: Social Isolation Compounded”
Dr Rajesh Babu
MSc Community Health Student
International Centre for Eye Health
Clinical Research Unit – ITD
LSHTM
Monday 1st December
5.00-6.30p.m.
BennettRoom (LG80), LSHTM, Keppel Street
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“Is AIDS Still Important: Research, Activism and Community Based Responses”
In a changing world of globalisation, climate change and financial crises is HIV/AIDS still be a priority? What can we learn from the responses to date and how can this help us in the future?
Dr Ade Fakoya
Senior Advisor on HIV and Health Services
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Tuesday 2nd December
12.45p.m.
Room 406, Birkbeck, Malet Street
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“Does HIV Get Too Much Funding?”
Panel discussion organised by LSHTM students
Speakers from MSI, IPPF and LSHTM will explore thearguments for and against the suggestion that the response to the HIV epidemic receives too much funding.
Speakers
Dr Tania Boler
Head of Research & Metrics
Marie Stopes International (MSI)
Mr Kevin Osborne
Senior Advisor HIV/AIDS
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
Professor Kaye Wellings
Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health
Public & Environmental Health Research Unit – PHP
LSHTM
Moderator
Dr Justin Parkhurst
Lecturer in Health Policy
Health Policy Unit – PHP
LSHTM
Wednesday 3rdDecember
12.45p.m.
Lucas Room (LG81), LSHTM, Keppel Street
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“HIV/AIDS and Rape: Modelling Predictionsof the Increase in Individual Risk of Contracting HIV from Forced Sex”
Talk in collaboration with the LSHTM Gender Violence & Health Centre
Dr Anna Foss
Lecturer in Mathematical Modelling
Health Policy Unit – PHP
LSHTM
Thursday 4thDecember
12.45p.m.
Room 364, LSHTM, Keppel Street
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“Please TalktoKidsAbout AIDS”
Film (26 minutes) directed by Brian Hennessey and introduced by
Thoai Ngo
Research Degree Student
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit - EPH
“In the donor-fatigued, jargon-laden, taboo-filled world of HIV/AIDS, two innocent and innovative voices revive our understanding and compassion. By asking questions ("that only a child could ask"), two young girls get basic, honest, and fresh answers about the pandemic that defines our times.
The result is a refreshing and thought-provoking documentary about our inability to make the epidemic understandable to all people because of our discomfort with issues of sex and sexuality.
The fact that two kids can get to the bottom of it at the International AIDS Conference -- talking to experts, sexworkers, crossdressers and people living with AIDS-- is hilarious, hopeful and a little bit haunting . . . why have so many died because we can't talk about these subjects in an open and honest way?”
Starring
Vineeta and Sevilla
Co-starring
Anthony Fauci – Director NIH Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Richard Horton – Editor-in-chief The Lancet
Laurie Garrett – Pulitzer-prize for The Coming Plague
Jose Esparza – Gates Foundation HIV vaccines
Kevin Decock – HIV/AIDS Director WHO
Helene Gayle – CEO/President CARE
Stephen Lewis – UN Special Envoy on AIDS
Craig McClure – Exec. Dir. Int'l AIDS Society
and a cast of 25,000
"The topic is a powerful exhortation to begin thinking about
how to talk to one’s own [children] " - The New York Times
Popcorn provided!
Friday 5th December
12.45p.m.
Room 406, Birkbeck, Malet Street
ALL WELCOME
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