In observance of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, and as part of the Isdell Center for Global Leadership (ICGL) Year of Global Health, the Woodruff Library and the ICGL have co-sponsored a quilt panel in an online display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. 

The physical quilt, made up of 48,000 panels, honors the lives of those who have died of AIDS-related causes. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National AIDS Memorial is displaying sections of the Quilt through a virtual experience. “This special initiative for 2020 will create the first-ever nationwide AIDS Memorial Quilt display that will represent Quilt panels from all 50 states and U.S. territories—in one place for everyone to learn, remember and honor our lost friends and loved ones,” the organization writes. 

As part of Pace’s sponsorship, ICGL Global Health Fellows, who have spent the past year researching AIDS, selected the panels that make up Pace’s display, and senior Alivia Wynn composed an accompanying essay. You can view Wynn’s essay and Pace’s panels, which memorialize Georgia residents, here. View the Quilt online at www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-aids-quilt. 

During an assembly on Dec. 1, Global Health Fellows will share how they approached selecting the blocks for Pace’s online panel, while AID Atlanta Information Services Program Manager Loreen Krug will discuss the organization and its important work. Finally, as part of these observances of World AIDS Day, the Gender & Sexuality Alliance will create an actual Quilt panel to be donated to the National AIDS Memorial.