Freeport, Bahamas - This year the Red Rose Ball Committee (RRBC) has invited Ms. Hydeia Broadbent, International HIV/AIDS Activist to be the guest speaker at the Red Rose Ball and to present to students from All Schools in Grand Bahama at a Student HIV/AIDS workshop on Monday, 9th of November 2015

Ms. Broadbent, a young 30 year old HIV/AIDS survivor and advocate provides the committee with an opportunity to reach the young people of Grand Bahama through its HIV/AIDS prevention educational workshop.

Ms. Hydeia Broadbent began her debut as an HIV/AIDS activist and public speaker who was born with HI/AIDS. At age six years old. she began speaking publicly, by12 years old Hydeia appeared on many national television programs including Oprah, 20/20, Good Morning America, and “A Conversation with Magic Johnson” on Nickelodeon. At birth, Hydeia Broadbent was abandoned at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas where Patricia and Loren Broadbent adopted her as an infant. Now at the age of 30, Hydeia spends her time spreading the message of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.

This workshop spearheaded by the Red Rose Ball Committee and other community minded Businesses will be held at the Bishop Michael Eldon High School Auditorium on Monday the 9th of November 2015 from 10:00am to 12:pm. The workshop is free for all students.