HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are three of the worlds deadliest diseases. Together, they kill 5 million people per year and sicken many more, mostly in poor and developing parts of the world. They also take a heavy toll on young people -- keeping workers out of their jobs, parents from feeding their children and children from going to school.
In Corvallis, Oregon a group of Global Citizen Corps students involved with their high school’s Human Rights Club had an idea to plan a dance in honor of World AIDS Day. They called their dance the “Red Rave”, encouraging students to wear red to the event, and decided to send all the proceeds to Cascade AIDS Project (CAP), a local...