Impressive multi-location event in New York City held on July 28 to bring awareness to both hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Great to see our fellow Team HBV members participating in this huge event!
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WHD Boston Quest Diagnostics Press Release
Press Release of the WHD 2012 event in Boston courtesy of Quest Diagnostics. Click here for the full article.
“BOSTON, July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Students at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology aren’t the type to take the summer off. Those who comprise a group called Team HBV, while working well-earned and prized internships, are also dedicating their off hours to leading conference calls, sending emails and public service announcements, and distributing flyers in Chinatown and beyond — all in an attempt to rally elected officials, community and healthcare leaders, and the general Bostonpopulation to join them, noon tomorrow, at Boston Common (Park and Tremont) for a creative approach to an important cause: a global Guinness World Record attempt on World Hepatitis Day.
July 28th is annual World Hepatitis Day, and this year, the World Hepatitis Alliance is calling on its international partners, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and Team HBV, to take part in a global, synchronized action within a 24-hour period. The event is both fun and serious, asking participants to perform one of three symbolic gestures: ‘See No Evil’ covering their eyes, ‘Hear No Evil’ covering their ears, or ‘Speak No Evil’ covering their mouths, to highlight that hepatitis B and C need greater attention and action around the world….”
Props to Team HBV at Harvard, Team HBV at MIT, and Team HBV at Brown!
Team HBV at De Anza featured in the World Journal
On March 3 2012, Team HBV at De Anza held a public public event in front of Cupertino Library. An outreach booth was set up to give out free prizes such as TEAM HBV Bracelets, pins, candies, balloons, sticker tattoos, and most of all, free coupons for screening from the ALC clinic. They had 100 of the ALC surveys filled out, and gave out sticker tattoos to 90 children.
The highlight of the event was the freeze mob. Before they hosted the event, they contacted two newspaper reporters: one from De Anza College, and the other was from a Chinese newspaper company called World Journal specifically to reach out to the Chinese community. The reporters came to the freeze mob event and interviewed chapter members. The World Journal is the most popular newspaper targeted at mainland Chinese immigrants in the U.S. and Canada.
