To commemorate World AIDS Day 2000, observed annually on December 1, Wilkes University's Student AIDS Awareness Committee has planned several events to address the challenges of this epidemic, which continues to spread throughout every region of the world.
All events are free and open to the public.
We're doing this for our friends. Through four structured improvisations, the real-life, honest dialogue between the characters confronts issues of condom negotiation, intimacy pressures, myths about HIV testing and ways to contract it, and social implications for young people. Through audience participation, students learn how to better communicate and how to negotiate safer sex, the proper way to use condoms, and how to respect themselves. How You Can Help, and a World AIDS Day Vigil. On Friday, December 1, World AIDS Day, representatives from area agencies will set up information tables in the Student Union Lobby from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Professionals from Planned Parenthood, Wyoming Valley AIDS Council, Pennsylvania Department of Health, and the Wyoming Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross will participate.