World AIDS Day 2025 Event Series

Join us for one or more of the events planned as part of Ventura County's annual World AIDS Day commemoration. This year's UNAIDS 2025 theme is "Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response."

5:15-6 p.m. Art Exhibit: See the display of AIDS Memorial Quilts from Quilt Project Gold Coast.

6-6:30 p.m. Public Health Networking: Visit tables hosted by local organizations focused on HIV/AIDS, collect stickers on your "passport" to win a spin at the prize wheel, and enjoy refreshments while learning about important public health resources.

6:30-7:40 p.m. HIV/AIDS Town Hall: This panel will feature experts sharing key updates, followed by a Q&A.

7:45-8:30 p.m. "Positively Speaking" and Candlelight Vigil: Hear from a local resident living with HIV/AIDS, and then join us for a nondenominational vigil to honor those whose lives have been lost to this pandemic. 

All events are free and open to the public; no reservations or tickets are required.

Sponsored by California Lutheran University's Public Health Program, Sociology Department and the Sarah W. Heath Center for Equality and Justice, with support from the HIV/AIDS Coalition of Ventura County, Quilt Project Gold Coast, Ventura County Public Health and Planned Parenthood California Central Coast.