Are You Ready to ACT UP?

Join us for an HIV/COVID-19 Webinar

Veteran AIDS Activist Jim Eigo and Professor Eugene Chudnovsky of the Committee of Concerned Scientists talk HIV and COVID-19 parallels around activism.

Sunday, May 31, 2020 6-7:30PM EST

https://tinyurl/ACTUPMAY31

Stream on Facebook or register in advance for Zoom Meeting.

Open to all ages, statuses, people around the globe.

Eugene Chudnovsky is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City University of New York. He has been involved in human rights movement in Russia, came to the U.S. in 1987, and served as chair of the Human Rights Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences. He currently co-chairs the Committee of Concerned Scientists. He has done research on airborne infection and has written articles on human rights issues and COVID-19.

Jim Eigo is a writer and AIDS activist living in New York City. From 1987 to 1992 and again from 2012 to 2017, Jim worked on several campaigns with ACT UP. The early campaigns helped re-make federal AIDS drug research and regulation. The later campaigns focused on ending AIDS as an epidemic in New York State and transforming New York City’s STD Clinics into Sexual Health Clinics and one-stop hubs of HIV prevention and care.

Resources:

Download: Ten-Principles-for-a-Healthcare-Activism-Aimed-at-Policy-Change.pdf by Jim Eigo