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- Category:
- Organizations - Volunteer Organizations
- Description:
- Medsin-Oxford is the Oxford branch of Medsin, a network of students with an interest in health with branches at universities across the UK. Medsin's activities aim to promote health as well as to act upon and educate students about health inequalities in our local and global communities.
You don't have to be a medical student to care about health and humanity!
Our affiliates:
- Oxford Global Health Group
- Marrow
- Restart
- Sexpression
- SKIP
- Stop AIDS
- Osler Opthalmic Society
- Oxford... (read more) - Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public to the Oxford University network.
Admins
- Anna
- Xin Hui (creator)
Events
4 past eventsSee All
- Global Vision Day
Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre,...
Monday, January 19 at 7:00pm - Post-GHC PARTY!!!
Friday, April 18 at 7:30pm - Global Health Conference 2008 ...
Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College
Thursday, November 1 at 8:00pm - GHC 2008 Introductory Meeting
Osler House
Tuesday, October 23 at 4:00pm
Medsin-Oxford
Basic Info
- Name:
- Medsin-Oxford
- Category:
- Organizations - Volunteer Organizations
- Description:
- Medsin-Oxford is the Oxford branch of Medsin, a network of students with an interest in health with branches at universities across the UK. Medsin's activities aim to promote health as well as to act upon and educate students about health inequalities in our local and global communities.
You don't have to be a medical student to care about health and humanity!
Our affiliates:
- Oxford Global Health Group
- Marrow
- Restart
- Sexpression
- SKIP
- Stop AIDS
- Osler Opthalmic Society
- Oxford... (read more) - Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public to the Oxford University network.
Contact Info
- Email:
- Website:
- http://medsin-oxford.pbwiki.com
- Office:
- Osler House
- Location:
- Oxford, United Kingdom
Recent News
- News:
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Medsin-Oxford - New Committee Members WANTED!
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Passionate about global health?
Want to do something about it?
JOIN THE MEDSIN-OXFORD COMMITTEE!!
The Medsin-Oxford committee are now recruiting new members to work alongside the current committee before a formal handover in June.
INTERESTED?
Send us an e-mail at oxford@medsin.org before 31 January telling us
a) Why you're interested in joining the committee
b) What you feel you'd be bringing to it
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The Blood of Yingzhou District
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When? 30 November 2008, Sunday, 5.30 pm
Where? Ferrar Room, Hertford College
What? Film Screening - FREE
An Academy Award-winning documentary short
produced by Thomas Lennon | directed by Ruby Yang
original language in Chinese | with English subtitles
USA / China | 2006 | 39 min | shot on mini-DV
For a trailer see: http://www.chinaaidsmedia.com/movies/Blood_trailer_320x240.mov
"A year in the life of children in the remote villages of Anhui Province, China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease."
No-one knows how old Gao Jun is. Four? Older? Younger? Whatever his biological age, he has none of the verbal babble, or ready tears, of a child his age. The film tracks this orphan for a year as his closest surviving kin - his uncles - weigh what to do with him. The older uncle’s dilemma: if he allows his children to play with Gao Jun, who is HIV-positive, they will be ostracized by terrified
neighbours. The younger uncle’s dilemma: so long as Gao Jun remains in the house, the young man may not be able to find a wife.
Gao Jun is one of just a handful of children we come to know in this film: Nan Nan, who after her parents’ death, was shunned by relatives and left to live without adult care with “Little Flower,” her teenage sister; and the Huang siblings, who vividly describe their ostracism at school. The suffering of these orphans is all the more devastating for being largely unnecessary, the function
of misinformation about the nature of the disease.
Yet the film is more than a mere catalogue of woes. Nan Nan reveals her impish humor and joy; the Huang children resolve to become educated and outstrip those who shun them; and Gao Jun, in the closing scenes, demonstrates his ferocious determination to live.
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World AIDS Week 2008
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Oxford Student Stop AIDS Campaign
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=36800992&ref=profile#/event.php?eid=35158866434
Containing a solidarity stunt, a concert, speaker events, panel discussion and film screening, this will be a way to remember World AIDS Day for an entire week.
The programme:
Saturday 29th November (7th week):
SOLIDARITY STUNT: Creating a HUMAN RED RIBBON around the RADCLIFFE CAMERA! Meeting at 2.30pm. Wear red!
RED BOP: 8.30pm Hertford Bop Cellar. £5 entry incl. a free red pango, all money raised going to Jeevadan HIV/AIDS care centre, South India. Wear RED!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=35843626251&ref=ts
Sunday 30th November:
5.30pm Ferrar Room, Hertford College: FILM SCREENING of 'The Blood of Yingzhou District', hosted by Medsin (that's us!) - an Academy Award winning film about children orphaned as a result of the AIDS epidemic in China
Monday 1st December - WORLD AIDS DAY:
An Evening with the OXFORD BELLES - an evening of a cappella from the best all-female a cappella group in Western Europe! 5.30-7pm at Wesley Memorial Church. Tickets to go on sale shortly, proceeds to Oxford World AIDS Week charities.
http://en-gb.facebook.co/event.php?eid=36878808814
Tuesday 2nd December (8th week):
6 pm at Medical Sciences Teaching Centre - Oxford Global Health Group hosts a SPEAKER EVENT - talks including information on small scale projects in Ghana, Zambia and South Africa, the latest in HIV vaccination and the economics of AIDS.
Wednesday 3rd December:
8pm Saskatchewan Room, Exeter - PANEL DISCUSSION on "Stigma" as part of OxHub Series - Speakers: Dr Evan Harris MP, Camilla Smith of THT, Faith Leader Memory Tapfymaneyi, a THT service user, Glen Williams from Strategies for Hope
This should be an amazing week - there's a load to get involved in. Let's raise awareness about HIV/Aids in Oxford and end stigma surrounding the virus. RESPECT AND PROTECT.
For more information, visit:
http://www.worldaidsday.org/
http://www.stopaidssocieties.org.uk/
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Medsin Global Health Conference 2008 - Oxford
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The Oxford Global Health Conference has been featured on
1) The Medsin Website
http://www.medsin.org/conferences/ghc/2008
2) The Lancet Student (!)
-Blog:
http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2008/03/31/medsin-global-health-conference-part-1/
http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2008/04/01/medsin-global-health-conference-part-2/
-Podcast:
http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2008/04/04/conference-season/
Check out the conference website to see what you missed out on ;)
http://globalhealth2008.org/
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New Website
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We're on Weblearn!
http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/medsci/undergrad/medicine/year4/