Canberra’s annual AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place this year on 15 May. It begins at 5.30pm at All Saints Church in Ainslie with an ecumenical service, then, at 7pm in the Studio of the National Museum of Australia. Guest speakers will include ACT Health Minister Simon Corbell. Panels of the Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt will be unfolded in the Museum’s Hall and lighted candles in the grounds will represent those lost to AIDS-related illnesses.
Canberra has been participating in the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial for 18 years
“The Memorial is a reminder to us all that HIV/AIDS hasn’t gone away” said Joey Tabone, President of the AIDS Action Council.“It is marked here in Canberra by the lighting of candles and the unfolding of panels of the Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt”
"We must make people everywhere understand that the AIDS crisis is not over; that this is not about a few foreign countries, far away. This is a threat to an entire generation, that it is a threat to an entire civilization..." - United Nations Secretary, General Kofi Annan
Press kit available in PDF format
For interviews and more information contact Rebecca Davey, General Manager of the AIDS Action Council, on 0412 882 855 or 02 6257 2855 or Joey Tabone President AIDS Action Council on 0407279733.
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