World AIDS Day Nashville 2009

Event Details

Event at a Glance

In keeping with the 2009 theme "Universal Access," Nashville’s World AIDS Day event is centered around Universal Access Airlines which will transport the audience on an around-the-world trip to take a global look at the face of HIV/AIDS with "in-flight" entertainment of thought-provoking media experiences including film, dance, theater, puppetry and live acoustic music. Click here for a list of this year's performers.

World AIDS Day…Who Cares?

The number of people living with HIV is continuing to rise in every corner of the globe - including in Tennessee. There are now 33 million people living with HIV worldwide; over 1 million people living with HIV in the US; and about 19,000 Tennesseans living with HIV.

Science has not yet found a cure, but HIV is a preventable disease. The challenge, as ever, is creating wider access to information, education, direct prevention materials, and medical care.

World AIDS Day – 21 Years

Twenty-one years ago, a summit of health ministers realized that a united global effort was required to halt the spread of HIV. As a result, World AIDS Day emerged as the first international health day in December 1988.

The aim of World AIDS Day is to bring to people's attention the challenges and consequences of the epidemic - ultimately stopping the spread of HIV and improving the lives of people living with the virus.

Each year the campaign is an opportunity for organizations throughout the world to highlight the HIV pandemic in order to raise awareness and bring about change.

"The 2007 World AIDS Day event in Nashville was the best of all the HIV events I have been involved with in my 21 years of working in the HIV field,"

Victoria L. Harris, Ed.D., Director of Education at Nashville’s Comprehensive Care Center.

Nashville is presenting, for the second year running, a unique event to join in the worldwide effort. "World AIDS Day gives us the opportunity to stop and glance through a global window into other people’s lives to see just how connected we all really are," says Tim Daniels of Nashville CARES.

Available for Interviews:

Victoria L. Harris, Ed.D.

Sarah Jane Sheldon, MS