Raising awareness about Aids and the spread of HIV, World Aids Day is honoured this week at the University of Manchester Students’ Union with a plethora of activities.
Holding vigil outside University Place on the evening of December 1, World Aids Day, campaigners and passers-by will commemorate victims of the disease, which kills over two million people every year.
While Aids is at the heart of actions, the Union will also celebrate Sex Week to raise awareness about other sexually transmitted diseases, including free Chlamydia screening in the Union foyer on Thursday – “because healthy sex is good sex.”
Ending the week on a high will be the Giving Aids a Face fashion show on Friday, featuring Khulekani Msweli’s label Jerempaul straight from London Fashion Week along Manchester based designer Sarah Divine and Oxfam collections. The show also features music, stalls and free food including a chocolate fountain, in a bid to raise money for charity Gone Rural, which provides free testing and HIV/Aids education and counselling in Swaziland, which has one of the highest Aids rates in the world.
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