Our Statement Regarding COVID-19’s Impact on Dance Marathon 2020

To the friends and supporters of the Pediatric AIDS Coalition at UCLA, From the start, this organization has had one central purpose: creating a world free of pediatric HIV/AIDS and advocating for the health of those involved with and affected by our cause. It is with that intention that, with great sadness and disappointment, the …

DANCE MARATHON 101: Have you registered?

Everything you need to know before you sign up to participate in the largest student-run philanthropic tradition on the West Coast.

World AIDS Day 2019: Mobilizing and Empowering Communities to Achieve an AIDS-Free Future

http://unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/WAD_2019 By Megana Sekar I’ve always firmly believed that a small action by an individual can have a reverberating effect. A few words of support could create a huge shift in a person’s day or week and advice you give a friend in passing could change their mindset. When I first heard that the United …

Post Dance Marathon: An Open Letter to Our Dancers

To all our dancers, You could’ve been anywhere last weekend, but you spent the first weekend of Spring Quarter in Pauley Pavilion on your feet for 26 hours, dancing the day and night away with other Bruins. You spent 26 hours becoming advocates for those affected by HIV and AIDS. Twenty-six hours is no small …

How we talk about HIV/AIDS matters

Language and activism have a necessarily fraught relationship: the right words can define successful activism just as the wrong ones can undermine it. For activism like that in the fight against HIV/AIDS, one unfortunately inextricable from misconception and stigma, language proves especially significant. Put simply, how we talk about HIV/AIDS matters. In any successful allyship, …