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Ending AIDS: The Politics of Possibility

Event Date:

March 20, 2017 | 4:00 PM EDT

ADDRESS:

Boston University College of Communication
640 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 209

Boston, MA 02215

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Media file: cohen.jpg
English

Project

Ending AIDS

An on-the-ground look at efforts in Africa and the United States to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Cover designed by Jordan Roth. Image by Misha Friedman. South Africa, 2016.
Cover designed by Jordan Roth. Image by Misha Friedman. South Africa, 2016.

Editor's note: Event set for Wednesday, March 15, 2017, postponed because of weather. New date set for Monday, March 20, 2017.

NEW DATE Join Jon CohenKenneth Mayer, Diveena Cooppan and Elaine Abrams at Boston University on Monday, March 20, 2017, for "Ending AIDS: The Politics of Possibility."

Cohen, a reporter for Science since 1990, has covered the HIV/AIDS epidemic for the magazine in more than three dozen countries. He also is a featured author in the Pulitzer Center e-book "To End AIDS." Mayer, a Harvard School of Public Health professor, is the co-chair and founder of The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health. Cooppan is director of Positively Beautiful: A Film about Life & Love in the Age of HIV, which follows five friends with HIV and their daily triumphs with the chronic disease. Abrams is a professor of epidemiology and pediatrics at the Columbia University and a senior research director at ICAP based at the Mailman School of Public Health.

Martha Bebinger, WBUR, Boston University Public Radio, moderates the discussion.

Boston University is a Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium partner through its School of Public Health, Center for Global Health and Development and College of Communications. This event to discuss the global implications of HIV/AIDS is also in collaboration with the BU Program on Global Health Storytelling

Ending AIDS: The Politics of Possibility
Monday, March 20, 2017
4:00 PM-6:00PM
Boston University
Charles River Campus
College of Communication
Room 209
Boston, MA 02215

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