Kyle from SAN Spokane Aids Network) of Spokane will be talking to the BoyZ about End Aids Walk this coming September.

Three of Washington State’s leading HIV/AIDS organizations have joined forces to promote their largest awareness and fundraising events. With a combined history of 68 AIDS Walks over 28 years, this collaboration is a new and innovative approach that brings the Seattle, Spokane, and South Sound regions together around a common goal: to build momentum and awareness statewide that through a reduction in new HIV infections, an End to AIDS in Washington State is possible.

While HIV rates are slightly decreasing in the state, there are about 510 new cases each year and over 12,000 people estimated to be living with HIV. Although it is true that HIV and AIDS is a chronic, manageable disease for most, we still lose people from AIDS- related complications. Those who are living with the disease may encounter challenges accessing and adhering to treatment or struggle to be accepted by their community. That’s where organizations like Spokane AIDS Network, Lifelong, and PCAF come in, to provide resources and support for years to come. The launch of the End AIDS Walks is a testament to a continued, unified effort to end AIDS once and for all.
For more information on the End AIDS Walk in your community, visit www.endaidswalk.org

End AIDS Walk Spokane
September 26th, 2015
Riverfront Park, Northbank Shelter
Check-in/Registration starts at 11am

End AIDS postcard front 8_03_2015

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Gender Talk

 

Award-winning feminist professor, gender activist, and author of Transgender Nation, Gordene MacKenzie chairs  the growing Women’s and Gender Studies program at Merrimack College and lectures wildly on sex and gender, media politics, popular culture, film, and women’s studies. She also co-produced GenderVision video, and produced and co-hosted GenderTalk radio.