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UCLA Hosts 26-Hour Dance-A-Thon To Help In Fight Against Pediatric HIV/AIDS

The Huffington Post     First Posted: 02/21/2011 6:11 pm   Updated: 05/25/2011 6:35 pm

UCLA hosted its tenth annual Dance Marathon Benefit over the weekend, raising $410,530.68 in the fight against global pediatric HIV/AIDS. The proceeds from the event benefited the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, One Heartland, Project Kindle, and The UCLA AIDS Institute.

Attendees participated in a 26-hour dance-a-thon from 11am on Saturday, February 19 to 1 pm on Sunday, February 20 to help raise awareness for and erase the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS.

The Dance Marathon was organized by the university's student-run Pediatric AIDS Coalition and
is considered the largest student-organized philanthropic event on the West Coast. Over 2,000 students came together with activists, community members, and celebrities like Modern Family's Rico Rodriguez and The Office's Kate Flannery.

The event included costumes, hours of dancing, and inspiring stories from people and families affected by HIV/AIDS. One such speaker was Elizabeth Glaser's son, Jake Glaser, who addressed attendees. "Being the first of anything is never easy, but at the same time, it's often the most important," Glaser told the dancers, remarking that UCLA's event and its participants, "showed the rest of the colleges and universities out there what is possible."

Click here to find out more about the UCLA Dance Marathon and its beneficiaries, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, One Heartland, Project Kindle, and the UCLA AIDS Institute.

Photos courtesy of UCLA Pediatric AIDS Coalition.

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UCLA hosted its tenth annual Dance Marathon Benefit over the weekend, raising $410,530.68 in the fight against global pediatric HIV/AIDS. The proceeds from the event benefited the Elizabeth Glaser Ped...
UCLA hosted its tenth annual Dance Marathon Benefit over the weekend, raising $410,530.68 in the fight against global pediatric HIV/AIDS. The proceeds from the event benefited the Elizabeth Glaser Ped...
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djdeleon
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11:18 PM on 02/22/2011
AMAZING
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jerryfromcalifornia
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02:33 AM on 02/22/2011
Yea Bruins, good job.
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Richcrafter
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10:27 PM on 02/21/2011
But will they help them when they become ill? Doubt it.
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Aldrin Gamos
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11:06 PM on 02/21/2011
We have dancers that go on to work at the camps that this event benefits, where the kids affected or infected with HIV/AIDS attend for the summer. So yeah...they would and have helped.
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dsinla
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09:40 PM on 02/21/2011
View the Award winning documentary "House of Numbers" to see why questions about this must be raised, and why deeper issues about HIV and AIDS need to be discussed. Lives are at risk. This is the first documentary,with the worlds
foremost authorities, that highlights the fundamental problems with HIV
testing, science, and statistics. It sheds new light on a misunderstood
phenomenon for which there is still no cure. GO to http://bit.ly/fhUxaJ - bit.ly/gogKLZ to see the trailer.
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KMFIX
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09:32 PM on 02/21/2011
Looks like a rave!
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cali88
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09:27 PM on 02/21/2011
keep up the good work Bruins!
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Levi Dygert
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09:21 PM on 02/21/2011
THIS IS AMAZING!
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Republitarian
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09:13 PM on 02/21/2011
There's a stigma about pediatric HIV? Since when?
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Aldrin Gamos
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10:59 PM on 02/21/2011
Ask the kids who have HIV...and don't get to play with the other kids because there are people out there who think you can get HIV from playing with someone who has it.
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Republitarian
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12:10 AM on 02/22/2011
Oh, so these mean little 9-yr-olds will suddenly be transformed into sweethearts by UCLA students engaging in drunken dancing? Wow, if that works, I should do some "cut the public employee benefits" drunken dancing. Sounds fun.
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zl1292
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06:28 AM on 02/23/2011
I have HIV and I am an engineer who works for the largest STD dating and support site STDslove. com. I have to tell you a secret, you can choose not to believe me. But the truth is that this site has more than 1,880,000 members and about 80% members are good looking in my estimation.

Unfortunately, STD rates soar worldwide and most people with STDs don't even know that they have them. The government should grant more money for STD education to lower the rates of STD transmission.
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1donewrong
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09:02 PM on 02/21/2011
Hopefully they will have enough funds to close all the bath houses
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