Miller School student members of Physicians for Human Rights are sponsoring an AIDS education and awareness day today (Tuesday) to commemorate World AIDS Day and shine a spotlight on the epidemic that continues to spread. The state of Florida has the nation's third largest population of people living with HIV/AIDS.

The day will kick off at 11 a.m. with a bake sale and postcard campaign outside the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, where volunteers will collect signatures to encourage the U.S. to ratify the Convention to Eliminate all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

Later, the group will host "One Night, One Voice, One Cause," from 7 to 9 p.m. at Tap-Tap Haitian Restaurant, 819 Fifth Street, Miami Beach. The event will feature performances by the Miller School's Music Ensemble for the Enrichment of Medicine (MEEM), the dance group MOVED, and talks by Vanessa Mills, founder of Empower "U," a Miami-based non-profit minority and peer-based organization founded by and for people living with HIV/AIDS, and Kaleba Ngoie-Kasongo, from the Shitowa Foundation, an advocacy group whose mission is improving lives of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Tickets for the evening event are $20 and will include appetizers. All proceeds will go to Empower "U." To learn more or to purchase tickets, contact Jessica Kaltman at jkaltman@med.miami.edu or Jennifer Gustafson at jkgustafson@med.miami.edu.