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SCORA: Standing Committee on Reproductive Health including AIDS
DECEMBER 1ST: WORLD AIDS DAY

Every year an event for this occasion takes place at the
American University of Beirut (AUB) campus.


World's AIDS Day 2000

1. The first one took place in Issam Faris Hall, AUB Campus, the bands included: AUB music club, Acapella, Leviathan and April Ash.We had a full house of 400 people.

2. The second concert was divided into 2 events: A rock concert in west hall, AUB Campus with the participation of Leviathan and the AUB music Club. And a classic music Concert in the Assembly hall of AUB performed by the AUB choir and other medical student piano players. All in all, around 600 people were present.

The first two concerts were so successful that they became a yearly tradition worth maintaining.

In 2004, we decided to take the concert outside AUB to involve as many people as possible. It was the first year also where SCORA members joined us from other universities including Universite Saint Joseph and Beirut Arab University to make this Lemsic-SCORA's first national World AIDS Day campaign.

     

The concert, AIDS Uncensored, which received a lot of advertisement and had a big impact through the media, involved coordination with 4 universities and many local clubs. It featured reknowned Lebanse bands such as Aks'Ser and Blend. Throughout the event, backgound presentations offered information about HIV/AIDS to the attendance in English and French.

   

The HIV/OPD fund has been used for 3 years now and is a great success.The 2004 concert also enabled SCORA to establish another fund in Hotel Dieu. SCORA, along with any willing partner, is planning on keeping both accounts going and will keep on raising money for them through more concerts and other events.

*The American University Hospital-Out patient Department. The fund created is for certain patients who cannot afford to pay the cost of HIV test.

 

This event has been different over the past years. Including:

•  Lectures by Infectious Diseases Doctors,
by social workers, or by AIDS patients.

• Red ribbons given out in exchange of donations,
which are then offered to AIDS patients.
The amount raised is donated to the
AUH-OPD Center, for HIV testing.

• Questionnaires filled out by AUB students to assess their level of knowledge about HIV-AIDS

• A stand with means of offering info and raising awareness of our public:
pamphlets, competitions, boards, and banners...

On December 2002, the idea of a concert stemmed in SCORA in order to fulfill two important aims: The first one was to raise awareness among our peers through an information board, brochures and mainly a continuous overhead projection during the concert with pictures, statistics and information on HIV/AIDS. The second goal was to raise money for the HIV/OPD fund.

Thankfully, and proudly, both goals were met!

  

So far 3 concerts have taken place: on WAD 2002 and WAD 2003, which were done in the American University of Beirut campus.
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