Don’t miss the talk by PHR Health and Human Rights’ Award Winner this Thursday!
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Posted by , October 18, 2006
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The Simmons Pre-Medical Club is proud to announce a talk by Dr. Julian Atim of Uganda. Dr. Atim came to Boston for only a week to receive her Health and Human Rights Award by the Physicians for Human Rights. She kindly agreed to speak in front of the Simmons community on October 19th (Thursday) at 6pm. Come and hear about the issues of human rights and health disparities in the world and fight against AIDS/HIV in contemporary Uganda. Learn how students can get involved and play a powerful role in the solutions to these problems. Bring your friends along! Refreshments will be served. The event will take place in Kotzen Conference Room on the ground floor of the library.
Here is a brief biography of Dr. Atim: Dr. Atim represents the future of medicine in her native Uganda. Although she received her medical degree just one year ago, she is already a veteran in the battle against AIDS in Uganda, where more than a million people have died of the disease, among them both of Dr. Atim’s parents. She has also dedicated her life to improving the health and human rights of displaced people in Northern Uganda, where civil war has raged for 20 years.
Human rights are central to Dr. Atim’s medical and advocacy work. As co-founder of Students for Equity in Health Care at Makerere Medical School, a group sponsored by PHR and our Ugandan partner group the Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS (AGHA), Dr. Atim is helping young Ugandan leaders utilize human rights, medical expertise and collective action to change their countries’ future for the better.
