Student groups hold event for World AIDS Day

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Two student organizations will hold an event to raise AIDS awareness for World AIDS Day today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center and Queers and Allies will hold the event in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union. The Douglas County AIDS Project will offer free HIV testing for students, faculty and staff.

Saida Bonifield, LGBT Resource Center coordinator and Lawrence graduate student, is coordinating the event. She said it was important to raise awareness not only worldwide, but also on college campuses.

“On college campuses specifically, we do this event to raise awareness surrounding safe sex, and we also want to provide free HIV testing,” Bonifield said.

The group will test using OraSure test kits, where a swab is used to collect saliva from inside the mouth. The testing is completely confidential.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Web site , the first World AIDS Day was in 1988. According to an article published in Journal Watch, 32,311 new cases of AIDS were reported to the Centers for Disease Control that year. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that more than one million Americans are estimated to be living with the HIV virus.

— Edited by Lauren Cunningham

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