Flagging AIDS Day

UC Irvine medical students marked World AIDS Day on Tuesday by planting 1,250 red flags on the campus and at the UCI Medical Center in Orange.

Each flag represented 20,000 people who have died of the disease.

More than half of the flags were planted in Aldrich Park in the shape of a large red bow.

At noon, medical students and faculty met in the school’s Nelson Auditorium for a moment of silence, and paid tribute to those who have died from the disease — as well as those who continue to fight against it.

— Candice Baker