Changing the World: AIDS, ACT UP, and the Birth of Patient Advocacy

 

PETER STALEY
AIDS Activist featured in HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE

Thursday, April 4 2013 
12:30 – 1:30

FXB G13
Lunch Provided

 

 

 

Screening of Academy Award nominated documentary HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE

Introduced by PETER STALEY

Thursday, April 4 2013 
5:30 Reception
6:00 Screening

 

Fenway Health, 10th Floor Auditorium
1340 Boylston Street, Boston

 

 

Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure: Legal, Moral & Practical Perspectives

 

THURSDAY February 28  -12:30 – 1:30

KRESGE G3
Lunch Provided

SPEAKERS:
Aziza Ahmed
Northeastern University School of Law
I. Glenn Cohen
Harvard Law School
Iain MacLeod
HSPH AIDS Initiative
Michael Moore

 

20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections - March 3-6 2013

 

 

 

 

Over 4,000leading researchers and clinicians from aroundtheworld will be in Atlanta for the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).

Listing of HAI talks and posters

PEPFAR in Africa

Thursday, January 10, 2013
1:00 to 5:00 pm - Reception to Follow

Snyder Auditorium
Harvard School of Public Health - 677 Huntington Ave., Boston 

For more information, please click here.

 

The Origin of AIDS
A Talk by Dr. Jacques Pepin

Monday, May 7, 2012
12:00–1:00 PM • Lunch Provided

Harvard School of Public Health
FXB 301, 651 Huntington Ave, Boston

Inspired by his experiences working as an infectious disease physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin, author of The Origin of AIDS, looks back at events that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS in Africa and traces its subsequent development into a modern pandemic. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man, and then how colonialization, urbanization, prostitution, and public health campaigns combined to fuel the spread of the HIV.

Screening: The Carrier: A Film by Maggie Betts

Thursday, April 5, 2012
7:00–9:00 PM

Harvard University
Tsai Auditorium
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge

With Special Guests:
Maggie Betts, Writer/Producer/Director
Dr. Ric Marlink, Executive Director, Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative

Sponsored by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation &
Harvard Undergraduate Global Health Forum

 

 

AIDS@30: An International Symposium

December 1–2, 2011
Boston, MA

Several hundred global health leaders, elected officials, scientists, artists and activists will gather to reflect on what we have learned from AIDS and how to apply those lessons towards ending the epidemic.

For more information and to register, please visit the AIDS@30 website.

Download a pdf of the poster.

 

Harvard President Drew Faust Visits the Botswana–Harvard Partnership

On November 25th, 2009, Harvard President Drew Faust spent a day in Botswana, touring the clinics and lab of the Botswana–Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership. She met with doctors, researchers, and students to learn about AIDS research being conducted in southern Africa as part of Harvard’s growing commitment to global health.
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