World AIDS Week Events
 Wednesday,
November 28
11:30 to 3:30pm, Eclectic
Free HIV Testing!
Sponsored by AIDS and Sexual Health
Awareness (ASHA),
CT AIDS Resource Coalition and Oasis Center of Middletown
Wednesday,
November 28
5:30pm, Beckham Hall (Fayerweather)
Free Dinner: Cornmeal soup will be served in solidarity with
those in refugee camps around the world. Keynote speaker: Lisa
Sharon Harper: playwright, ethnic reconciliation specialist, and
exec director of NYFaith&Justice. Please invite your friends! People
of all/none religious backgrounds
welcome. AIDS affects us all - gather in solidarity, for awareness
and action.
Wednesday, November 28
8:00pm, PAC 001
Film Screening: "Philadelphia" is an Academy Award-winning
film revolving around HIV/AIDS.
Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks), a gay lawyer infected with AIDS, is
fired from his law firm in fear that they might contract AIDS from
him. After Andrew is fired, in a last attempt for peace, he sues his
former law firm with the help of a homophobic lawyer Joe Miller
(Denzel Washington).
Thursday, November 29
8:00pm, PAC 004
Film Screening: "3 Needles" tells the stories of a Canadian
porn star (Shawn Ashmore) hiding the fact he is HIV positive, a
blood buyer (Lucy Liu) in China who fails to take adequate
precautions with the blood, and Catholic nuns (Chloë Sevigny and
Sandra Oh) caring for their HIV-infected patients in Africa.
Friday, November 30
9:00 to 11:00am, Exley 339 (take elevator to floor 3)
Videoconference with five other schools and we will
have a live chat with activists and students in African countries
including Kenya, Mauritania, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Benin. The
topic of the videoconference is the global AIDS crisis, specifically
its effect in Africa. A wide range of topics will be covered ranging
from the adverse effect of AIDS on development to what can be done
to stop it. Wesleyan is going to be
the main site, which is really exciting!
There will be free Dunkin Donuts!
Sponsored by Wes Americans for Informed Democracy and ASHA.
Saturday, December 1
4:00 to 5:30pm, PAC 002
Come attend a talk about the history and future of the AIDS
pandemic by an accomplished doctor who will speak to both
current global and local issues. Hosted by Student Global AIDS
Campaign and ASHA.
Tuesday, November 27-Friday,
November 30
In honor of World AIDS Week, the Student Global AIDS Campaign will
be tabling in Usdan Tuesday through Friday, 11:30 - 1:30. We will be
selling t-shirts that we made, so bring a few bucks! As part of a
national SGAC initiative, we will be having people write messages to
Congress about PEPFAR, the
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. PEPFAR is up for
reauthorization next year- we will be
writing our demands for the new plan on socks, then sending those
socks to SGAC'ers in DC, who will deliver them in laundry baskets to
key Congress members. Our theme is "Air PEPFAR's Dirty Laundry."
Other
Upcoming Events
Auditions for "The Vagina Monologues"
Friday, November 30th, 12:45pm to 3:15pm
Saturday, December 1st, 12:00pm to 7:00pm
MPR, Usdan Basement
Sign up on the bulletin board across from the PO Boxes in Usdan.
The show will be performed on the second or third weekend in
February, and rehearsals will begin right after winter break.
Questions? Email
smyrseth@wesleyan.edu or
sabbott@wesleyan.edu.
"Big Bucks, Big Pharma"
Tuesday, December 4
8:00pm, PAC 004
"Big Bucks, Big Pharma" pulls back the curtain on the
multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious
ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances
created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry's marketing
practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers
understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical
advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription
medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors. Combined,
these industry practices shape how both patients and doctors
understand and relate to disease and treatment. Come for the
popcorn, stay for the discussion. Sponsored by the Peer Health
Advocates.
Announcements
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Tips for a HealthierU
3 Easy Steps to Breaking Bad Habits
Think bad habits like nail biting and knuckle cracking are hard
to break. Experts from WebMD offer simple solutions.
Test your
STI Smarts
SmarterSex.org offers this quick quiz to help you gauge your
knowledge of sexually transmitted infections.
Bitter orange weight loss supplements: do they work?
The Mayo Clinic offers advice about bitter orange and the risks of
using unregulated weight loss supplements.
A Healthy Dose of Info on...Pain Relief
Pain relievers can work wonders,
allowing many people to carry on with their lives despite disabling
arthritis, for instance, or recurrent headaches. But all pain
relievers, prescription or over-the counter (OTC), have potential
risks, especially when used long term for chronic pain. Recent
studies have raised concerns—some new, some old—about these widely
used drugs. In December 2006, the FDA proposed tougher warnings on
labels, but it may take a year for these to appear on packages.
Here are the concerns -- and what to do
about them.
 Two
things to note first. Though there are many brands of OTC pain
relievers, there are only two basic types:
acetaminophen (such as Tylenol) and
NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), all available
in generic form. NSAIDs include aspirin, ibuprofen (such as Motrin
and Advil), and naproxen (such as Aleve). These and other NSAIDs are
also sold by prescription, usually in stronger dosages.
Second, the issues below relate
primarily to people who take these drugs at least several times a
week.
MORE...
~ From the
UC-Berkeley Wellness Newsletter
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