Observing World AIDS Day

Dec 01, '09,    08:30 am – 05:00 pm

Observing World AIDS Day 2009

On December 1st., The Immune Deficiency clinic (located at Kaiser Permanente East Interstate Medical Office) will be hosting a special display in observance of World AIDS Day. This year we will be focusing on the fact that every 9.5 minutes someone in the U.S. gets infected with HIV. Clearly this disease has not gone away.

Our mission is education and prevention. We will have brochures, posters and informative talks by clinic staff to answer questions and give information to the public. See how informed you are by spinning the wheel of knowledge and win a prize. There will be goodies and giveaways at the table!

Event will be held in the breezeway between the South and East buildings.

Hours of the event will be from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.

Also during World AIDS Day,The ZoomUganda traveling exhibit will be on display.

It focuses on the lives of twelve orphaned high-school-age girls in an AIDS-ravaged village in Uganda were each given a digital camera and 24 hours to document their daily lives. The girls also kept journals about what they hoped their photos conveyed.

Interestingly, many of the girls said they hope to enter the medical field as nurses or doctors if they are able to continue their educations. Meanwhile, they live in houses without electricity or plumbing.

ZoomUganda is sponsored by the Harambee Centre, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon. It aims to connect people and groups in the U.S. with the peoples and cultures of Africa.

The exhibit will be on display until Thursday, December 3. If you don’t get a chance to see it at Interstate, you can meet the girls and find out more at www.zoomuganda.org.

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This event is open to the public.

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