Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organization, will set up a traveling exhibit at the University of Colorado at Boulder Aug. 24-25 to raise awareness of the need for medicines in poor countries.
The exhibit, housed in a 48-foot tractor-trailer, will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both days and is free and open to the public. The exhibit will be set up between Fiske Planetarium and the Leeds School of Business on the north side of Regent Drive.
Experienced aid workers will be on hand to educate visitors on the problems surrounding the millions of deaths that occur each year from treatable diseases such as malaria, kala azar, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness and HIV/AIDS.
Upon entering the Access to Essential Medicines EXPO, visitors spin a "Wheel of Misfortune" and are assigned one of the five diseases highlighted in the exhibit. At the end of the exhibit, medical volunteers will provide a "diagnosis" and estimate visitors' chances of receiving proper treatment.
The Access to Essential Medicines EXPO is traveling to 30 cities across the nation. The CU-Boulder visit is coordinated by the university's Office of Community Affairs.
Doctors Without Borders delivers emergency medical care to people in more than 85 countries. It treats victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters and others who lack health care due to social or geographic isolation.
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