AIDS Awareness Week

AIDS Awareness Week
November 24, 2024 to December 1, 2024

For the 12th year, AIDS organizations across Canada will raise public awareness about the epidemic and offer ways to counter its effects during Canadian HIV/AIDS Awareness Week, November 24 to December 1st.

HIV/AIDS is still a crisis.

If you think that recent medical advances have made HIV/AIDS a chronic disease - think again. HIV/AIDS remains a crisis in Canada and around the world, according to public health officials. At the close of 2001, an estimated 50,000 Canadians were living with HIV/AIDS, a 24% increase since 1996. Most alarming, an estimated 15,000 Canadians don't even know they have HIV.
So what is fuelling this continuing health crisis? Stigma and discrimination are among the greatest barriers to preventing more infections.

The United Nations' Joint Committee on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) reports that the people and communities most affected by HIV/AIDS are those with limited access to fundamental social and economic rights.

Fear of disease, stigmatizing and blaming others for the epidemic, and discriminating against those they know or suspect to have HIV make fertile ground for new cases of HIV. Stigma and discrimination can also stop people from seeking information about HIV or requesting an HIV test.

Public education and compassion are essential if this epidemic is to be stopped.

AIDS Calgary's activities during AIDS Awareness Week:

November 25th:

Aboriginal Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Colonel Belcher Veteran Care Centre Auditorium, 9:30am-3:00pm

Display Booth at University of Calgary, Mac Hall

WORKSHOP: Breaking Barriers Through Education: An Anti-Homophobia Workshop for Youth Service Providers, 1:30 - 4:30pm @ AIDS Calgary

WORKSHOP: Living with HIV/AIDS, 6:00-9:00pm @ AIDS Calgary

Display Booth at City Hall, Atrium

WORKSHOP: Safer Sex & HIV/AIDS Workshop, 6:00 - 9:00pm @ AIDS Calgary

December 1st (World AIDS Day):

Memorial Service, 4:00pm @ Unitarian Church of Calgary

November 24th to December 1st:

Display in window of EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts; design courtesy of Area Design.

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