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April 17, 2008
College Bans Student HIV/AIDS Club
The University of British Columbia has granted club status to roughly 300 student groups, but its student-funded Alma Mater Society (AMS) has refused to authorize an HIV/AIDS club for the past three years, Canadian newspaper The Province reports (canada.com, 4/14).
Since 2006, at least two groups at the university have submitted four separate constitutions to authorize a club focused on HIV awareness, education and funding. However, The Province reports that the AMS’s Student Administrative Commission accepted none of them.
One of these groups, the AIDS Community Action Network (ACAN), spent last year implementing prevention and treatment programs in downtown Vancouver without the support of the school. “We think it’s really important that UBC has a club that deals with AIDS, given how big the issue is in Vancouver,” says founding member Meredith Bragg.
According to The Province, AMS claims to have denied ACAN club status because its members are not trained HIV/AIDS educators or counselors.
