World AIDS Day 2020 Virtual Ceremony
JOIN US FOR WORLD AIDS DAY 2021
December 1st, 2021
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Join by Zoom for:
Kananiokeakua School of Hula
Music by: Hoku-winner Kūpaoa
Nā Wai Chamber Chorus
Honolulu Gay Men’s Chorus
Suzanne Richmond-Crum Award to Dr. David McEwan
AIDS Memorial Quilt Panels
Online videos all day at:
https://worldaidsdayhawaii.org/
Started on December 1st 1988, World AIDS Day is recognized around the globe as a day to take action, fight prejudice, and raise awareness about the fight against AIDS. According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35. Around 95% of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world. Right here in Hawai’i, there are an estimated 3,000 people living with HIV/AIDS.
World AIDS Day 2020, A National Conversation
8am – 11am HST, includes Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. David Ho
2020 marks 40 years since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States, a pandemic that has led to nearly 700,000 lives lost and still no cure four decades later. This year, our nation struggles through another pandemic — the fight against Covid-19 – the horrific loss of life has surpassed 220,000 in a matter of months
World AIDS Day 2020 – A National Conversation on December 1 from 10 am to 1 pm PST will bring together powerful voices from both pandemics for an important conversation about health justice, social activism, remembrance, hope and resilience.
https://www.aidsmemorial.org/wad2020
World AIDS Day Quilts
AIDS Memorial Quilt Virtual Exhibition
Each year, sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt travel to communities throughout the country for in-person displays. In 2020, that is simply not possible due to Covid-19. While nothing can replace the beauty of seeing the Quilt in-person, our hope is that this first-ever, 50-state AIDS Memorial Quilt virtual exhibition, helps use the power and beauty of the Quilt to help our nation heal and remember during these difficult times. The National AIDS Memorial has worked together with Quilt partners from across the country to create this exhibition which includes digital images from thousands of hand-sewn Quilt panels, each visually telling the story of loved ones lost to AIDS. The exhibition is curated by state, allowing visitors to how people came together through one devastating pandemic to create a living memorial as a way to express their love, grief, pain and hope. Each display is hosted by a Quiltmaker, community organization or business and includes touching narratives that connect each display to the lives memorialized and their work around HIV/AIDS. The exhibition is free to the public through March 31, 2021.
Center: Governor David Ige presents World AIDS Day Proclamation with Raymond Alejo, 2019 Suzanne Richmond-Crum Award recipient, and Heather Lusk, Executive Director of Hawai‘i Health & Harm Reduction Center.
Right: Hawai‘i State Department of Health, World AIDS Day Planning Committee, and Hawai‘i Health & Harm Reduction Center staff pictured with Governor David Ige at the signing of the World AIDS Day Proclamation on November 22, 2019.
World AIDS Day Committee and Supporters
AIDS Community Care Team • AIDS Education Project
Thomas and Elizabeth Brodhead Foundation
Cathedral of St. Andrew • Church of the Crossroads
Community Consortium of AIDS Physicians–Hawai’i
Gregory House Programs • Hawai’i Center for AIDS
HIV Drug Assistance Program
Hawaii Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Hawai’i Department of Education-HIV Prevention Program
Hawai’i Department of Health – amily Planning Program
Hawai’i Department of Health–Harm Reduction Services Branch
Hawai’i Health and Harm Reduction Center
Hawai’i Island HIV/AIDS Foundation
Hepatitis Prevention, Education, Treatment & Support Network of Hawai`i
John A. Burns School of Medicine
Kapi’olani Community College Service Learning Program
Kaiser Permanente • Kōkua Mau • Lutheran Church of Honolulu
Malama Pono–Kaua’i’s AIDS Foundation • Maui AIDS Foundation
Mānoa – Punahou Catholic Community
Queen’s Medical Center • Slow Food O’ahu
UH-Mānoa Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, CTAHR
UH-Mānoa Lokahi Peer Education Program • Waikiki Health Center
and many individual members of the community
World AIDS Day Hawai’i 