FREE RETREAT February 7th-9th

During the retreat you will get a chance to talk to other individuals about issues that you face everyday and discuss ways to help overcome issues by listening to others that have overcome similar issues, all while being away in a relaxing retreat. Healthy Relationships is a program for small groups off people living with HIV/AIDS. Knowing that the lives of persons living with HIV/AIDS are stressful, this retreat aims to build coping skills to reduce stress. Some of the skills involve: Solving problems Making decisions Negotiating choices These skills can be used in situations such as: Disclosing HIV status to family and friends Disclosing to sex partners Building healthy and safer relationships Healthy Relationships does not tell people they should disclose. Participants use the skills to make informed decisions about disclosure and sexual behavior. For more information: call 202-446-1100 or Email Ken Pettigrew Kpettigrew@uhupil.org Kenya Hutton Khutton@uhupil.org

40 AIDS activists draped in red tape risk arrest at White House

Following a successful protest last year, over 40 AIDS activists draped in red tape risk arrest at White House George Kerr, Co-chair of DC Fights Back will join the protesters. Action on the eve of World AIDS Day, November 30 When: Friday 11/30 at 2:30pm Where: White House sidewalk - Lafayette Square Who: Over 40 HIV positive activists, health advocates, students and others What: Civil disobedience on the White House sidewalk RAIN OR SHINE EVENT DETAILS: Over 40 HIV-positive activists, health advocates, students and others will risk arrest on Friday at approximately 2:30 by performing a symbolic sit-down protest in front of the White House, at the sidewalk near Lafayette Square. The demonstrators will be draped in hundreds of yards of red tape to demand that various government entities remove the political "red tape" that is interfering with an effective response to HIV, locally, nationally, and globally. Demonstrators will be dressed as educators and doctors; others will wear shirts identifying them as people living with or at risk for HIV. The demonstration expands upon a civil disobedience during last year's World AIDS Day, in which 20 protesters were arrested outside the White House. The protesters, including members of local HIV/AIDS advocacy organization DC Fights Back, will be demanding that local DC public school students receive medically accurate, unbiased, comprehensive sexuality education that includes lessons on HIV and AIDS. The protest occurs following recent reports that confirm that 1 in 20 DC residents are infected with HIV and identifying DC's HIV/AIDS crisis as a modern epidemic. Demonstrators will be echoing the call, by almost all HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations nationwide, for the US to implement a strategic US national strategy. The assembled also say that the reauthorization of the Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in 2008 is the time to reform the plan. This includes the removal of the 1/3 earmark for abstinence-until-marriage funding and the implementation of evidence-based HIV prevention policies, plus increased U.S. support for HIV treatment worldwide.

The Blood of Yingzhou District: Film and Panel Discussion, Thursday May 3, 12:30pm

Please join the Youth AIDS Team for a screening of the award-winning documentary on HIV in China "The Blood of Yingzhou District," Thursday May 3rd, 12:30 to 2:oopm. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with World Bank experts on HIV and China. Address is 701 18th St., Room J1-050. Please RSVP to Samantha Huffman at shuffman1@ifc.org.

Pills Profits Protest: Film and Discussion on the Global AIDS Movement

The Youth AIDS Team presents "Pills Profits Protest," a documentary on the global AIDS access to treatment campaign. Film (60 minutes) will be followed by a panel discussion with speakers from the World Bank, PAHO and the University Coalitions for Global Health. Thursday, March 22nd, 12:30pm to 2:00pm, at 1850 I St. NW, in Room I1-200. Please RSVP to Mary Beth Levin at mlevin@worldbank.org.