BU Now » SPH http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 MTV’s “Staying Alive Ignite” HIV/AIDS awareness campaign comes to campus April 21 & 22 http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2011/04/15/mtvs-staying-alive-ignite-hivaids-awareness-campaign-comes-to-campus-april-21-22/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2011/04/15/mtvs-staying-alive-ignite-hivaids-awareness-campaign-comes-to-campus-april-21-22/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:44:04 +0000 Jenny Mackintosh http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=9031 As part of MTV’s “Staying Alive” campaign, “Ignite” addresses the stigmas of an HIV or AIDS diagnosis — as well as virusmtv_sa_logo1_formatted-copy education and attitudes about safe sex — against the backdrop of youth culture in various locales, including Kenya, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ukraine. On April 21st and 22nd, the campaign is coming to Boston University with a screening of Shuga: An HIV/AIDS Soap Opera in Kenya.

In addition to two screenings — one on the Medical Campus and another on the Charles River Campus — a post-screening discussion will be held at COM, featuring Georgia Arnold, Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility at MTV and Director of Staying Alive. Dean of Students Kenn Elmore will continue the discussion as part of his weekly Coffee & Conversation on Friday, April 22nd.

Visit the Center for Global Health & Development’s Ignite landing page for the most updated information.


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The first installment features the work being done at the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Refugee Health Clinic (CAM). Staffed by acupuncturist Ellen Silver Highfield and Michael Grodin, a professor of health law, bioethics, and human rights at the School of Public Health (SPH), the clinic offers non-Western therapies to help treat torture survivors.  Through the use of traditional healing methods, botanicals, mind-body techniques and traditional Chinese medicine, Highfield and Grodin are helping refugees who have lived through or witnessed unspeakable horrors.

Tomorrow, the series will cover the Haitian Earthquake Long-term Pediatric Support (HELPS) team, an effort by the School of Medicine (MED) and Boston Medical Center to offer social and legal services to Haitians who fled following last year’s devastating earthquake.


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