AIDS Progress Report # 1

AIDS Progress Report 1

AIDS - social stigma and revelations

Topic Introduction

For our action campaign we will be discussing the topic of AIDS. In the current American Society AIDS or Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome has gotten a rotten wrap. This disease while medical does not discriminate societally it has become known as the "gay disease" since the liberation of homosexuality in the late 60s early 70s. For instance on books in regards to blood donation any man who has had sexual intercourse with another man since the late 60s early 70s is now no longer able to donate blood. Through the use of pop culture as well as historical and current research we will try to examine this stigma and show that its is no longer the gay disease. We will also attempt to show that there is a positive side to this disease for instance the number of infected has decreased over the years. Through this attempt we will show gratitude for those who have donated to the various organizations that help with AIDS research and education, as well as stress the importance of continuing this great work that has already been done. 

Resources

The resources we intend to use, we hope will not only engage audiences that see our campaign but also spark them with the motivation to take action. We hope to achieve this goal by using a mixture of both good and bad pop cultural references to AIDS. As well as informational articles and educational books and journals to present the cold hard facts.

"Task Force" Assignments

After discussing as a group we believe that no one person should be responsible for one specific thing. So as far as assignments go we shall bring what we have to the table. However the work will be distributed equally. An example of how we will achieve this is that no one person apart of this campaign will post consecutively on the blog.

What We Will Try and Achieve 

With the direction this campaign is taking, there is no clear questions we want to examine specifically in regards to AIDS. Moreover we would like to use this campaign to break down one major and possible a few minor stigmas in regard to the disease, and show WHY and HOW you should and can get involved 

AIDS Action Campaign Activist 

Aaron C.

Daryl T.

Laura T.

Kevin F.

Mitch G.

Saras A.