To commemorate World AIDS Day in December 2015, a teacher at Shawnee Mission North High School requested me as a guest speak for three sets of his Global Issues class, specifically focusing on HIV & AIDS. I developed this presentation with a focus on defining terms, sharing a timeline of HIV/AIDS since the early 1980s, and discussing how HIV is transmitted and treated.

This was one of the situations where it became very clear to me that HIV and AIDS was not being talked about as much has it had been when I was in high school and college, as the students did not know much of the basic information. In the HIV field we look at that as both a positive and a negative. It's negative because that means people who are at risk for new HIV infections may not have the information they need to stay HIV-negative. But it's also positive because we've made so many advances in our response to HIV/AIDS and not as many people are dying from AIDS as they were in the early days of the epidemic.

DATE:
2015

WHERE:
Good Samaritan Project
Shawnee Mission North High School

SKILLS:

• Google Slides
• Research
• Public Speaking
• Managing Group Dynamics