The Brighton & Hove World AIDS Day community partnership is staging a candlelit vigil to mark this year’s World AIDS Day tomorrow, Sunday, December 1.
Lunch Positive, the HIV charity who provide a free meal every Friday for people who are HIV positive, will be hosting a community café with hot drinks and a chance to meet volunteers from 4pm in New Steine Gardens. There will also be an opportunity to leave flowers and other tributes at the memorial.
The candle lit vigil and reading of the names of those lost to HIV and AIDS will take place in New Steine Gardens at 6pm. Names can be added to the reading list my emailing the Sussex Ecumenical HIV Chaplaincy: susshivchap@gmail.com. These names will also be kept for next year’s event.
A service of hope and solidarity organised by The Sussex Ecumenical HIV Chaplaincy will take place at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church at 7pm.
The partnership will also be working with AVERT, the Horsham-based international HIV and AIDS education and prevention charity, as Brighton will be hosting the world’s biggest red ribbon, which will be unfurled at 2pm on The Level in a ceremony hosted by Caroline Lucas MP.
The Brighton & Hove World AIDS Day community partnership comprises Bear Petrol, BHCC LGBT Community Safety Team, Lunch Positive, Gscene, Peer Action, Sussex Beacon, Terrence Higgins Trust Brighton, The Sussex Ecumenical HIV Chaplaincy and AVERT.
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