News Briefs for 12.11.20
Beyond the Carolinas
News briefs from across the globe for 12.11.20.
RAIN has announced that its CEO and president, Debbie Warren, will be retiring in January 2021 from the HIV service organization she founded 28 years ago.
qnotes is pleased to partner with Rosedale Health and Wellness, Dudley’s Place, Affinity Health Center, Amity Medical Group and NC AIDS Action Network in presenting this special section, “Life, Positively,” in recognition of World AIDS Day.
This year, instead of hitting the road, the AIDS Memorial Quilt — the more than 48,000 handmade panels honoring over 100,000 lives lost to AIDS that brought attention to and spurred action to address the pandemic back in the late 1980s — will have virtual showcases in all 50 states and U.S. territories due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rosedale Health and Wellness, in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline and ViiV Healthcare, was selected as one of the U.S. sites for medical trial testing for the SOLAR study, an injectable treatment for HIV.
Taking part in 2020 World AIDS Day observances world-wide have been severely effected by the global novel coronavirus pandemic. Unlike previous years, the number of live events have been brought to an almost complete halt.
On Dec. 1, more than 1,500 people gathered at the National AIDS Memorial to welcome home the first group of panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt (the Quilt) back to San Francisco and honor leaders who helped bring together the voices of the epidemic with “profound courage, unrelenting hope and unity of humankind,” organizers shared.
qnotes is pleased to partner with Affinity Health Center, Rosedale Medical, Amity Medical Group and RAIN in presenting this special section, “Life, Positively,” in recognition of World AIDS Day.
Paying respects to those who have been lost to HIV/AIDS is one way to honor their memories. In the Carolinas, a number of agencies and organizations have arranged for this to be done in a number of ways, be it a vigil, luncheon, exhibition or others.
The House of Mercy is gearing up for a busy holiday season that will include the debut of its new video series.