AIDS 2014 Newsmaker: Conference Logo Designer Yohana Haule
Yohana Haule and James Chau
The logo for the AIDS 2014 conference is ubiquitous, on signs all over the conference hall, posters, stationery and web materials. It perfectly mirrors this year's theme: Stepping Up the Pace, Moving Forward, Moving Together.
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In This Issue
"It's the fighting back. It's the building of places to care for the living and for the dying. It is courage, it is honor, it is integrity. It's people joining forces in a time of great need. It is hope, It's sharing the burden. It's people caring for their own and finding love, and surviving, and believing in the future even when we are hurting more than we have ever hurt before."
AIDS 2014 Opening Ceremony Honors Malaysia Flight Victims, Takes on Ignorance and Stigma
Typically, the kickoff of the International AIDS Conference is a noisy, boisterous affair. But this year, the opening ceremony at AIDS2014 in Melbourne was marked by a profound silence. At the cavernous convention center, some 5,000 delegates stood for a minute-long global moment of remembrance for delegates on flight MH17, who lost their lives en route to the conference. The six—thankfully, far fewer than the 100 conference-related deaths first reported by the media—died along with 292 others on Friday, when their plane was struck by a missile over Ukraine.
AIDS 2014 Melbourne Declaration – Nobody Left Behind
[Editor's Note: Since 2000, the organizers of each International AIDS Conference issue a Declaration addressing some of the compelling issues in the field of HIV/AIDS and affecting people living with HIV/AIDS that demand international attention. We urge you to read and sign the Melbourne Declaration to demonstrate your commitment to these principles. Click here to sign the petition as an individual. Click here to sign as an organization.]
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Using the Arts to Carry The Fight to End HIV/AIDS to Younger Generations
The 20th International AIDS Conference brings people together from all around the world to join hands in expanding the fight against HIV/AIDS and creating an opportunity for both young and old to share stories and learn from one another. At age 18, this is the second International AIDS Conference I've attended—when I was 14, I participated in AIDS 2010 in Vienna, Austria. In spite of that, I found Day One to be a complete eye opener. What the media most often shows is the science behind the disease. It focuses less on arts and culture, which tend to show how the disease impacts real people. This disconnect is especially significant for my generation, which relates little to the most devastating years of the U.S. epidemic in the 1980s. I have no friends who died from the virus; in fact, I know few people my age who have contracted the disease. What I do know is that, unlike in the Eighties, people can now live with the illness. There are medications, and eventually, there will be cures.
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