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Let's make
EVERY day
World AIDS
Day! There
are over 33
million of
our Brothers
and Sisters
living with
HIV/AIDS. As
the Campaign
to END AIDS
states, "we
have the
tools to END
AIDS!"
Where's the
anger and
urgency?
Stop with
the status
quo and
rhetoric!
It's time to
muster the
political
and
collective
will to once
and for all
eradicate
the scourge
of AIDS from
our planet!
~ Bob Bowers |
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Photos
from
World
AIDS Day
- 2009 |
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Youth
HIV/AIDS
educator Bob
Bowers
after
speaking at
the
University
of
Wisconsin-Stevens
Point for
their World
AIDS Day
Ceremonies.
UW-SP did a
phenomenal
job of
bringing
students and
the
community
together for
a very
special
evening! |
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It was a complete honor
to present at Madison
College (Madison Area
Technical College-MATC)
on HIV/AIDS.
Thank you to the Pride
Alliance and United
Common Ground for
arranging the
presentation, and to all
who attended! |
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I am genuinely honored to be part of the special POZ World AIDS Day supplement in the Washington Post. To view it, follow this link and click the link on the right "SPECIAL POZ SUPPLEMENT TO THE WASHINGTON POST" You can become a fan of POZ Magazine on Facebook: www.facebook.com/POZmagazine |
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HIVictorious and OTP are honored to support the One Campaign.
Click here to read Bob's letter to the Capital Times for World AIDS Day
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Sounds
like you a good talk
tonight, too! Love that you
are out there too educating
with style and honesty-
you're my twin positoid
brother of a separate
mother. Our paths will cross
soon!
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I
am very impressed at the
amount of time that you
spend
speaking to young people in
schools. From the
pictures it is clear that
you are connecting with
them. Thank goodness. I am
also amazed that the schools
are so open to you being
there with all your ink. I
think that some areas
schools (and parents) would
have a problem with it. So,
my hat is off to you for
being both inked and and
effective speaker to youth
in schools! We need more
people like you.
~ John |
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Photo from World AIDS Day - 2007 |
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HIV positive speaker, Bob
Bowers, was the guest speaker for World AIDS Day events at Marquette University |
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Bob with
members of Marquette University's Watumishi group. Thank you
for hosting World AIDS Day events on campus! |
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is a student organization founded in 2004 at
Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Watumishi is a Kiswahili word for “people of
service”. It is our mission to both complete
fundraising for a Library Learning Center in Voi,
Kenya while also educating our campus and the
greater Milwaukee community about HIV/AIDS
issues in America and Africa. |
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Photo from
World AIDS Day - 2008 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
students created these amazing t-shirts to
raise awareness of AIDS.
The shirts read, "Keep the Promise - Enjoy life, take control, stop
HIV/AIDS." HIVictorious is extremely grateful
for the
incredible donation the students made to our organization. Thank you to the
Global Health Interest
Group for your amazing efforts surrounding
World AIDS Day in Madison! |
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Click here for more photos of AIDS survivor Bob Bowers |
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Bob Bowers and Getu in Los Angeles |
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HIV positive speaker
and
AIDS activist Bob
Bowers, One Tough Pirate,
also known simply as
"Da
Pirate,"
has been
living with
and surviving
HIV/AIDS for 26
years.
Bob
started as a
youth HIV/AIDS
educator
with
peer education
programs in Los
Angeles shortly
after his diagnosis.
To broaden his
personal message of
prevention through
education,
hope and
awareness of the
disease,
Bob founded the
nonprofit
HIV/AIDS educational
organization,
HIVictorious, Inc.
in 2005.
HIVictorious
addresses
youth HIV/AIDS
education and
prevention
and provides
AIDS awareness in
Madison, Wisconsin
and throughout the
United States
through Bob's public
speaking and it's
AIDS awareness
poster contest,
"What
if it Were You?"
Mr. Bowers
long-term survivor
of HIV/AIDS,
and someone who has
lost dozen of
friends to AIDS,
Bob is
wholeheartedly
committed to
educating today's
youth and young
adults,
about the realities
of
HIV/AIDS
as well as
living with AIDS
long-term.
Mr. Bowers
is a champion for
hope and survival
despite some of the
difficult
circumstances that
we ALL face in life. |
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"Compassion is our cure."
~Bob Bowers
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