January 28, 2005
CHAPEL HILL — As part of an ongoing series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author Greg Behrman will speak Monday (Jan. 31) in the Cobb Theatre of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.His 7 p.m. lecture is part of the “Narratives of HIV” series, running through Feb. 9 and free to the public. The series explores the many facets of a worldwide epidemic.

Behrman’s book, “The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time,” (Free Press) was published last year. For more information, visit www.theinvisiblepeople.com.

His lecture is one way that “Narratives of HIV” will explore stories about the epidemic, which affects an estimated 39.4 million people worldwide.

Discussion groups and film screenings on HIV and AIDS also will be held in the School of Public Health.

“We’re trying to tell a story in many different ways – we’re trying to tell the story of what happens with HIV in the world,” said Nina Yamanis, event coordinator and service chairwoman for UNC’s Student Global Health Committee.

The stories of African youth affected by AIDS and HIV will be the subject of “Scenarios from Africa,” with Dr. Kate Winskell of Emory University, on Wednesday (Feb. 2). The 7 p.m. event will be held in the Ibrahim Seminar Room, 1301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall, where Winskell will discuss her intervention to prevent HIV transmission among African youth. The youth wrote scripts for short films, which were then directed and produced by accomplished filmmakers. Some will be shown. Visit www.globaldialogues.org for more information.

Rounding out the series is the “SISTA Intervention,” to be held Feb. 9 at 7 p.m., also in the Ibrahim Seminar Room, 1301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall. In honor of Black HIV/AIDS Awareness and Information Day (Feb. 7), Dr. Cynthia Prather of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will speak about SISTA, a gender and culturally relevant intervention program for African-American women.

The SISTA Intervention involves peer-led group sessions on ethnic and gender pride, HIV knowledge and skills training. It is based on social learning theory and the theory of gender and power. Visit them on the web for more information.

Yamanis said she hopes the multi-media series will inspire people to become involved in the fight against AIDS. “We chose these events to happen at this time because there is a student global AIDS march on Feb. 26,” she said. “We’re trying to motivate people to go to the march.” Visit www.studentaidsmarch.org or more information about the Washington, D.C., march.

“Narratives of HIV” is sponsored by the Student Global Health Committee, Office of Global Health, Center for AIDS Research, Student Global AIDS Campaign and Student Congress.

 

This release was researched and written by Jim Walsh of UNC News Services.

Student Global Health Committee contact: Nina Yamanis, (919) 966-9002

News Services contact: Deb Saine, (919) 962-8415 or deborah_saine@unc.edu

For further information please contact Emily Smith by email at ejsmith@email.unc.edu

 

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