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Our first meeting this year. It will be a chance for us to explain Stop AIDS further as well as planning our future events and discussing how you can become more involved with our society
read moreFilm showing of "Yesterday". It is an Oscar nominated film and follows the life of a young Zulu woman and her daughter in rural South Africa as she contracts HIV and struggles to survive and aptly describes the stories of many who get HIV.
read morewe are hosting speakers from Zambia, Uganda and the USA who will talking about their powerful personal experiences of HIV and their roles in the fight to achieve universal access by 2010.
read moreThe Manchester Students Stop Aids Society was founded in September 2003 by ex-volunteers from Students Partnership Worldwide(SPW). The volunteers had all returned from Gap or Post-Graduate years abroad, teaching HIV/AIDS awareness in schools and local communities. They were put in touch by the UK's student branch of the National Stop AIDS Campaign. International Development, bringing together more than 70 of the UK's leading development and HIV/AIDS groups, including the British Red Cross, Oxfam, Christian Aid, Save the Children and Terence Higgins Trust. The range of organisations involved emphasises the undiscriminating nature of the epidemic. Launched on World AIDS Day 2001, the campaign works to raise awareness in the UK about global HIV/AIDS epidemic and to campaign for urgently scaled up international action.
Raising funds to donate to HIV/AIDS charities on campus by hosting open mic nights, live gigs, speed-dating events and parties.
Raising student awareness of the rise in HIV/AIDS and STDs both in the local community and worldwide via student union information stalls, speaker tour events and leafleting.
Lobbying MPs by holding meetings with Secretary of State for International Development, Hilary Benn, and our local Manchester MPs; inundating the Department for International Development with action cards; corresponding with local MPs on their action in parliament and inviting them to attend and speak at our events.
There are several Student Stop AIDs Societies across the country which work together to promote HIV/AIDs awareness and found raise amongst student community. We also work alongside other student bodies such as MedSIN which is run by medical students who collaborated with us holding events on World AIDS day, UNISEX which is a sexual health awareness raising society, and have this year been supported very generously both by the Textiles Society and members of the Drama Department.