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canmark
Just discovered that the U.S. gov't has a twitter page promoting the AIDS.gov website, promoting HIV/AIDS information. They've created a Flickr group where people can post their photos for World AIDS Day. There are already over 500 photos, most of people holding up signs that say ____ Facing AIDS ______ (you fill in the blank with your own personal message).

http://worldaidsday.org/
http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/
http://www.unaids.org/en/

On a sports-related note, basketball star Yao Ming will be part of an HIV awareness campaign in China.

UNAIDS Executive Director, Yao Ming and Government launch campaign against discrimination in China
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In the campaign, Yao Ming is encouraging people in China and all over the world to help change attitudes and stop stigma and discrimination, “Like all of us, my friends who are living with HIV should have the opportunity to live full and dignified lives.”
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China, together with India, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea, is home to 82% of people living with HIV in the Asia-Pacific region.

HIV remains a formidable challenge in China with several factors fuelling the epidemic, including shame, fear, stigma and discrimination; low awareness of HIV within the general population; rural poverty; mobility; availability and affordability of prostitution; a rapidly expanding community of men who have sex with men; and injecting drug use.
canmark
Alicia Keys to perform live on YouTube on World AIDS Day. She will be encouraging donations to Keep a Child Alive. "Keep a Child Alive is dedicated to providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care and support services to children and families whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS."
canmark
The Twitter home page has gone [RED] today for World AIDS Day. http://twitter.com/joinRED
noumenon
QUOTE(canmark @ Nov 28 2009, 05:08 PM) *

Alicia Keys to perform live on YouTube on World AIDS Day. She will be encouraging donations to Keep a Child Alive. "Keep a Child Alive is dedicated to providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care and support services to children and families whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS."


Annie Lennox is auctioning off her voice to whomever bids the highest on eBay for her SING campaign. She will make a phone call to the highest bidder and sing personally for him or her (she'll play the piano as well). It will be filmed on DVD and sent to the winner.



Link to her MySpace page with (funny) YouTube links with her explaining all the auctions, for that and other items to be auctioned off (signed handwritten lyrics, lithographs, etc.)

Short YT film for the SING campaign's second anniversary.
canmark
QUOTE(noumenon @ Dec 1 2009, 08:08 AM) *

Annie Lennox is auctioning off her voice to whomever bids the highest on eBay for her SING campaign. She will make a phone call to the highest bidder and sing personally for him or her (she'll play the piano as well). It will be filmed on DVD and sent to the winner.


JiP this has your name all over it. Start bidding! Higher, higher!
SCTrojan
QUOTE(noumenon @ Dec 1 2009, 05:08 AM) *

Annie Lennox is auctioning off her voice to whomever bids the highest on eBay for her SING campaign...


Love love love that tee. Ok, where's that damn tee thread I started? wink.gif
George Twins fan
QUOTE(SCTrojan @ Dec 1 2009, 11:06 PM) *

Ok, where's that damn tee thread I started? wink.gif


Grady Sizeless threatened to sue so Jim and Cyd had to remove it. tongue.gif
SCTrojan
Okaaaayyyy! rolleyes.gif
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