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Giving Women Power Over AIDS: Gallery Photos

Giving Women Power Over AIDS, April 26 - April 28, 2005.

Opening reception: April 26, 3:00-7:00 pm in the Jean J. Schensul Community Gallery at ICR, 2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100 (corner of Wyllys St. & Columbus Blvd.), 146 Wyllys St, Hartford, CT, 06106.

Speakers' Luncheon: Confronting AIDS in India and Uganda.
Thursday, April 28, 12:00 - 2:00pm
Speakers: Bonnie Nastasi, Ph.D., ICR; and Kevin Dieckhaus, M.D., University of Connecticut Health Center.

"Giving Women Power over AIDS," a traveling exhibit, was designed to raise awareness and support for the global war on AIDS and emerging HIV prevention technologies such as microbicides. The opening reception at ICR featured a poster session highlighting the results of local and international HIV prevention efforts; a panel discussion with local HIV experts and advocates; and refreshments and live music. The exhibit features a prize-winning photo essay, "In Her Mother's Shoes," by reporter Paula Bock and photographer Betty Udesen of The Seattle Times. They traveled to Zimbabwe in 2003 to get a firsthand look at the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

The exhibit was sponsored by the Global Campaign for Microbicides and CT Microbicides Now; the reception and Speakers' Luncheon by The Institute for Community Research and the CT AIDS Education and Training Center of the Yale School of Nursing.

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Laurie Sylla, Panel Moderator and Director of the Connecticut AIDS Education and Training Center; ICR Executive Director Peg Weeks; and Bindiya Patel, North American Sites Coordinator for the Global Campaign for Microbicides.


Hartford City Councilperson rJo Winch addresses the audience at a panel discussion about microbicides and reproductive health.		Youth Researchers from ICR's Youth Action Research Institute explain their work at a poster session during the opening reception.


From left: Brian Liebert, an HIV Prevention Counselor at Community Health Services, and Laurie Sylla, at the panel discussion.


Bonnie Nastasi of ICR discusses her work with married women in India, who are increasingly vulnerable to contracting HIV.		Kevin Dieckhaus, MD, of UConn Health Center, presents his experiences training doctors and improving HIV/AIDS health facilities in Uganda at the speakers' luncheon.

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