Envision the calamities of twenty 747 jets crashing every day, each year. Envision the entire population of Chicago wiped off the map in a year. Envision the reality of three million lives lost each year to AIDS. Seniors Meghan Dhaliwal and Lindsay Hauptman exhausted no time envisioning the harsh realities of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). They sprung into action.

"Articles that I read claimed that AIDS has killed more people than any war; we have clubs for everything else, and I didn't understand why we did not have one for this cause," said Dhaliwal. Two years ago, Dhaliwal stumbled upon a documentary on television that discussed the AIDS epidemic.   After abundant research, Dhaliwal and Hauptman, teamed up to found a Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) chapter for SPFHS.

The SGAC, a national and chapter-based campaign dedicated to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States and abroad, believes that the fight for HIV and AIDS through political advocacy and international and multiracial partnerships promotes global justice.   Dhaliwal shares this belief; "I think everyone has a different opinion of AIDS, and there are many different stories. Even today, some people believe AIDS only affects homosexuals. It doesn't just affect homosexuals; it affects everyone."

Their future goals for the SPFHS Chapter of SGAC include painting a mural, fundraisers for AIDS organizations beyond SGAC, hosting a movie night featuring "RENT," participating in the AIDS Walk in New York in May and increasing education and awareness of students.   Hauptman explained, "Some people do not fully understand how [AIDS] is transmitted and how you can get it, even though we go over it in health class. We want to change this."