CPUT International Candlelight Memorial

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A day to remember

Openly Positive participated in the 28th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial hosted by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s HIV/AIDS Unit at its Bellville Campus on Monday 16 May 2011. We joined CPUT staff, SRC leadership and the Treatment Action Campaign in lighting candles to remember dear people we have lost over the years.

Derrick Fine introduced Openly Positive and our Whisper not authors, and Ann Ray Ray and Marius Harmsen shared their personal stories. Our message was that the best way that we can honour lives lost to stigma, denial and AIDS is to speak out and no longer whisper to ensure that everyone living with and affected by HIV gets access to the information, testing, support, treatment and care they need.


Marius and CPUT colleagues light up


Ann touches us all