World AIDS Week 2013

Today we honor World Mental Health Day and health care workers who are combating fear and stigma in communities around the world. We're grateful to continue our work with Grand Challenges Canada to strengthen mental health care systems at the community level in Rwanda.

Read about Dr. Reginald Fils-Aime's similar work to integrate mental health care into Haiti's primary care system: http://bit.ly/1xzcRIT

Check out some of the photos from World AIDS Week and feel free to post any photos you took of our events.

Hello all,

Unfortunately, due to changes in weather we've decided to cancel our event this evening. However, we'll be rescheduling for sometime during the spring semester.

For those that purchased tickets, you'll be given free admission to the rescheduled event.

I'd like to thank all of you for the effort and support you've put into World AIDS Week.

Do you like brownies? Do you like our amazing flyer from MinuteMen Creatives? Well then you'll love this morning, because Face AIDS Austin will be selling World AIDS Week tickets today from 10-2pm and with every purchase you get a brownie and tshirt!!!!!

Today is World AIDS day. It is the day that World AIDS Week is being hosted by FACE AIDS Austin, because we are commemorating. The losses, the gains, the difficulties, the triumphs, and every life that has been touched by HIV/AIDS across the world.

Hope you're having an awesome break from school filled with glorious food! In celebration of the $$$ you've probably spent today, just think that our goal of providing infant formula to 19 infants with HIV positive mothers in Rwanda would be achievable with YOUR help! We're selling tickets this upcoming week to our Performance Showcase this Friday December 6th 7:30-9:00pm and your $5 ticket could literally feed a child.

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has changed the fight against AIDS. At the end of 2012, about 10 million people were receiving ART in low- and middle- income countries. However, over ____ million people who are eligible for ART do not have access to it.

Who is the guy featured on our flyers for World AIDS Week 2013 this year? (Hint: He wrote "We Are The Champions")

What year did the CDC use the term AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) for the first time?

Although we raise money to fight HIV/AIDS in Rwanda, we also try to raise awareness about the disease here in the United States. Who can fill in the blanks to this statement? Take a guess.

More than ___ million people in the United States are living with HIV infection, and almost ___ in 5 are unaware of their infection

An important indicator of how the immune system is functioning and how advanced the AIDS infection is _____?

a) the number of helped T cells
b) the number of killer B cells
c) the number of macrophages
d) the number of helper B cells

Also, a fun fact: In 2008, Dole Plantation's Maze that stretches over 3 acres was named the world's largest maze! Our maze in Gregory Plaza in Gregory Plaza won't be quite as big, but you will have the chance to learn a lot about the HIV/AIDS epidemic!