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A lecture taking place to commemorate World AIDS Day, coordinated by the Centre for Sustainable International Development and StopAIDS (student group), both of the University of Aberdeen. The event will be specifically geared to young people and they will be encouraged to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
The topic of global responses will be addressed by Hilary Homans who has worked in HIV since the 1980s and organised the first Social aspects of AIDS conference in the UK in 1986 and advised the Chief Medical Officer for Health Sir Donald Acheson about an appropriate UK response.
She, also with Peter Aggleton conducted research on young people’s perceptions of HIV in order to understand how they thought HIV was transmitted and how they themselves may be at risk. Since 1987 Hilary Homans has worked globally in 50 countries to assist governments address HIV amongst young people and was the Global Adviser for HIV and AIDS for the British Government Department for International Development.
Since 2001 she has been working as a Senior Adviser on HIV for the UN and co-authored a report On the frontline: A review of programmes that address HIV among international peacekeepers and uniformed services 2005 to 2006. This report was prepared for the UN Security Council and provided background information to a new UN Resolution on HIV that was adopted in New York on 7th June this year. The focus of her presentation will be on the challenges and lessons learned globally from the 1980s to date.
The second speaker, Simon Pringle from Drugs Action in Aberdeen, will speak about the current HIV situation in Aberdeen the main modes of transmission and what programmes are in place for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
Booking is not necessary.