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    • Who we are

    Stop AIDS Societies are groups of students who want to do something about the HIV/AIDS pandemic and believe in the potential and capacity of youth to fight it.

    Societies are part of the Student Stop AIDS Campaign, an initiative of the Stop AIDS Campaign. The campaign aims to educate and inform young people in order to mobilise their energy and commitment to stop AIDS.

    Stop AIDS Societies (SAS) were launched at universities across the UK in September 2003 and seek to build a new social movement of young people as the key agents of change. As a movement Student Stop AIDS Societies is a coalition of student-led societies across Universities in the UK affiliated with the national Stop AIDS Campaign and coordinated nationally by SPW.

    Aims:

    Student Stop AIDS Societies aims to stop the HIV and AIDS pandemic through promoting universal access to evidence-based prevention, long term and sustainable treatment and care whilst providing education to reduce stigma and discrimination. Our two current national campaign focuses are:
    o Promoting universal access to treatment through fair drug pricing globally.
    o Promoting access to treatment for all people living in the UK.

    What We Do:

    Each society freely pursues these aims through the following activities:
    o Lobbying the UK government and Members of Parliament.
    o Undertaking education and awareness-raising activities with students and the wider community.
    o Volunteering on HIV projects at home and abroad.
    o Fundraising for charities that work on these issues.

    The Campaign members

    The Stop AIDS Campaign is an initiative of the UK Consortium on AIDS & International Development. The Student Stop AIDS Campaign is a coalition of student groups within the national Stop AIDS Campaign.

    Members of the student coalition campaign across UK university campuses. The Stop AIDS Societies are central to the coalition, but other members include NUS, UNYSA, ActionZone, SPW and Medsin.

    Societies across the UK

    There are now societies across the UK. For details see the Societies section.

    To Download a copy of the Stop AIDS Societies’ official mission statement click here:Stop AIDS Societies Mission Statement

    Staff Support

    Diarmaid McDonald - Student Stop AIDS Campaign CoordinatorThere is one member of staff at SPW working to support the Student Stop AIDS Campaign. Diarmaid McDonald took up his post in June 2007 having previously work with People & Planet and overseas with SPW and VSO. He coordinates the work of the societies and represents student campaigners at the wider Stop AIDS Campaign meetings. If you have any questions about the campaign or Stop AIDS Societies please don’t hesitate to get in touch by email on diarmaid.mcdonald@spw.org.