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Exhibit Highlight: UN 2005
Giving Women Power Over AIDS
Travelling Exhibit at the United Nations
On 2 June, UNGASS, a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS of the 59th Session of the United Nations General Assembly was held at the UN headquarters in
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At the end of the day, members of the Global Campaign for Microbicides (GCM) and PATH staff were joined by over 115 guests at the United Nations to mark the end of the meeting and celebrate the opening of the Global Campaign’s traveling exhibit, Giving Women Power Over AIDS, which remained on display at the UN General Assembly Visitors’ Lobby through the middle of July.
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During the reception, GCM and PATH shared the stage with Mrs. Nane Annan, artist, lawyer, and wife to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and Paula Bock, Seattle Times reporter and author of In Her Mother’s Shoes, a story and photo essay featured prominently in the Global Campaign exhibit.
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"The title of tonight’s exhibition is Giving Women Power Over AIDS and the Global Campaign for Microbicides seeks to do just that by empowering women with greater means and control to protect themselves against infection.” |
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“For two weeks, Ruth had been very sick…Her husband had died two years earlier from AIDS and tuberculosis. Her in-laws accused Ruth of killing him with witchcraft. The truth? Ruth's husband, a truck driver, had many girlfriends before and during his marriage. It was he who infected Ruth. For too many women around the world, that's life. It's also death.” |
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The exhibit was on display in the United Nations
Headquarters General Assembly Visitors’ Lobby
through from June 1st to July 15th, 2005.
Photos courtesy of Amy Whitehouse