AIDS Rally in Trabant on Wednesday

4:56 p.m., Oct. 24, 2005--A Campaign to End AIDS rally, hosted by the Delaware HIV Consortium, will be held at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 26, in the Trabant University Center Food Court. A caravan of walkers, traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C., will stop at UD for the rally.

The rally will feature several guest speakers, including Newark Mayor Vance Funk, and will provide opportunities to make donations and to sign advocacy cards and the Delaware End AIDS banner.

During month-long walks, 10 AIDS walk caravans nationwide will stop in more than 100 cities and towns to stage rallies and events, and pick up thousands of participants along the way.

On Nov. 5, the walkers will unite in Washington, D.C., for Five Days of Action to Ends AIDS, with a wide range of events on tap, including visits to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, an interfaith prayer service, a rock concert and the March to End AIDS.

The Campaign to End AIDS is a national, grassroots effort to demand lifesaving treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS, strong worldwide HIV prevention efforts based on science and not ideology, research for a cure and better treatments and an end to AIDS stigma and full civil rights for people living with HIV/AIDS.

The Delaware HIV Consortium is a statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating the spread of HIV/AIDS and to creating a seamless continuum of care for all people infected and affected in Delaware.

For more information about the rally, e-mail [lunal@udel.edu] or call (302) 831-0091.

For more information about the Campaign to End AIDS, visit [www.endaidsnow.org], and for information about the Delaware HIV Consortium, visit [www.delawarehiv.org].

Article by Kim Sharrah, AS ’06

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