CAMPUS NOTICE
November 29, 2018
| SUBJECT: | World AIDS Day 2018 |
UC San Diego will honor World AIDS Day throughout the week leading up to
Saturday, December 1, 2018, to focus attention on and raise awareness
about the impact that HIV/AIDS has had and continues to have in the San
Diego community, the nation, and the world.
Our campus sponsors a number of opportunities in recognition of World
AIDS Day, including the display of three sections of the AIDS Memorial
Quilt in the Price Center Ballroom East on Friday, November 30 from
10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday, December 1 from 8:00 a.m. to
11:00 a.m. More information regarding all of the World AIDS Day
activities at UC San Diego may be found at http://worldAIDSday.ucsd.edu.
Opportunities throughout the week include:
· An HIV Awareness pledge activity hosted by each of the Six
Colleges. The pledges will be displayed in Price Center Ballroom East on
World AIDS Day.
· Free and confidential HIV testing on Library Walk on Thursday,
November 29, as well as testing for other STIs, courtesy of Family
Health Centers of San Diego.
· A film screening of “Liyana” and panel discussion on Friday,
November 30 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Price Center Theater. This
event will be hosted by Tritons for Gender Equity and Center on Gender
Equity and Health and is co-sponsored by the UCSD Center for AIDS
Research and features a mixed media documentary on HIV in Swaziland
followed by a panel discussion.
· A Panel of Young People Living with HIV on Friday, November 30.
In partnership with UC San Diego’s Students for Global Health, the UC
San Diego Mother, Child and Adolescent HIV program will share their
stories at 5:30 p.m. in the Price Center Ballroom East.
· An AIDS Memorial Quilt Display on Friday, November 30 from
10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday, December 1 from 8:00 a.m. to
11:00 a.m. Three sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display
in the Price Center Ballroom East. Additionally, there will be
continuous screening of “Alternate Endings, Activist Risings” by Visual
AIDS highlighting the impact of art in HIV/AIDS activism and advocacy;
poster presentations of HIV/AIDS related research from UC San Diego
students, staff, postdocs, and faculty in the Price Center Ballroom
East; and a display of student pledges from each of the Six College,
which were collected throughout the week.
· A bike ride from San Diego’s Mission Bay South Shore Boat
Launch to UC San Diego’s campus in La Jolla meeting on Saturday,
December 1 at 7:30 a.m. courtesy of San Diego participants in the annual
AIDS/LifeCycle 545 mile bike ride from San Francisco to LA. Ending at
10:00 a.m. in the Price Center Ballroom East, this event will close with
a viewing of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display.
More information regarding all of the World AIDS Day activities at UC
San Diego may be found at http://worldAIDSday.ucsd.edu. In recognition
of this event, one hour of administrative leave with pay has been
approved for employees to apply to their attendance at any World AIDS
Day event. Supervisors may allow one hour of administrative leave with
pay for staff to participate in World AIDS Day programs, as long as the
absence does not infringe upon the performance of required job duties or
patient care.
 | Pradeep K. Khosla Chancellor
Elizabeth H. Simmons
David Brenner
Alysson Satterlund
Becky Petitt
Nancy Resnick |