Through my role as steering committee rep for Leeds, Newcastle and Lancaster, I want to support my societies as best I can, and I realise that taking over a society can be quiet a daunting prospect for a new committee.
At the February training my society and I found the skill share sessions very useful, as [...]
We have had a fantastic Student Stop AIDS year, with highlights which include;
The biggest Student Stop AIDS speaker tour to date which visited 22 universities, spoke to over 800 students and went to the House of Commons and DFID;
Patent pool campaign success, as in December UNITAID voted to go through with the creation of a [...]
When I first heard about the Stop AIDS day of action I was excited at the prospect of a day campaigning in London. As I read further, I saw that I needed to write to my MP and ask to meet him on the day. I did this, but then suddenly realised that I would [...]
It was a dark and stormy night when Edinburgh’s Stop AIDS Society’s “Faces of AIDS” week wrapped up with CabarAIDS, a vibrant cabaret-style show.
By the end, our “Faces of AIDS” week had; used one stationary bicycle; spanned two weeks; experienced three minutes of break dancing, encompassed four events, caused five individual tears to shed, and [...]
If you go to Oxford, Cambridge, Reading (Home counties) or Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, Bath, UWE (South West) then you may have noticed you don’t have a steering committee rep yet. This is because there weren’t enough people at the February training to have a fair vote.
WE WANT TO HOLD ELECTIONS WITHIN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS!
This [...]
For the first time ever we had elections for the steering committee at the February Training. But what is a steering committee?
A steering committee is a group of young people which represent a group of societies. Their role is to attend national Stop Aids Campaign meetings to ensure that the students view is represented and [...]
Our video is now available on YouTube and Facebook, enjoy:
Sheffield Boom Dynamite video on YouTube
Sheffield Boom Dynamite video on Facebook
Thank you to everybody who came and danced like crazy. Without you, it wouldn’t have been possible! We had lots of fun, and I had a good giggle editing it all together, so please watch [...]
An editorial in this month’s Lancet is about GSK and patent pools if anyone is interested and can access the site:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60410-4/fulltext
We have several events coming up in the next few weeks - please come along!
Monday 2nd March:
- 5pm-7.30pm: We will be holding a stall in Interval, in the union
- 7.30pm: Introduction to the Campaign talk, Saptal Ram room in the union.
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We’re holding a joint film screening with the Cambridge Chinese Salon discussion group next week (coincidentally at the start of the Stop AIDS week of action!).
The film is ”Care and Love” (2007), which tells the story of Liu Xianhong, a Chinese villager who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion during childbirth. Lack of regulation in Chinese blood [...]
