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"GLOBAL EFFORTS"
The
Star (www.thestar.com.my)
(07/12/05)
CAMPAIGN KICK-START: Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of English soccer team
Manchester United, holds a button of the "Unite for Children, Unite Against
AIDS" campaign at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva,
Switzerland on Oct 25. Unicef, UNAIDS and other partners recently launched a
global campaign focusing on the enormous impact of HIV/AIDS on children,
saying it was a disgrace that fewer than five per cent of HIV+ children
receive treatment and that millions of children who have lost parents to the
disease go without support.
BEAR NECESSITY: Fashion designers (from left) Joelle Morton, Danielle Milich,
Ken Done and Bianca Doyle hold Unicef Teddy Bears as part of the worldwide
fundraiser for children on World AIDS Day in Sydney. Done, along with other
Australian fashion designers, will create unique, one-off outfits for the
Teddy Bears which will be auctioned, the funds going to Unicef's "Unite for
Children, Unite Against AIDS" campaign which aims to raise US$1.3bil over
five years.
AND IN IRAN: Girls hold a banner during a ceremony to mark World HIV/AIDS
Day at the Ararat sports complex in Teheran. On World AIDS Day, ways of
having a "healthy and safe sex life" were explained to Iranians, who live in
a country where having illicit sexual relationships is a crime. The banner
translates into "Unite for children, Unite Against AIDS".
STAR POWER: US actor Daniel McVicar (left), best known from The Bold and the
Beautiful series, poses with teenagers during the Unicef campaign against
AIDS at Athens' central Syntagma Square. McVicar, who was in Greece to
promote the day-time soap opera, lent his star appeal for the worthy cause.
OUT OF AFRICA: Peer counsellor Ndeye Astou Mbaye, 20, poses for a portrait
in front of a blackboard with the French word for "AIDS" written on it at a
community-run AIDS awareness workshop for teenage girls and women in the
Senegalese capital, Dakar. Up to four million of the world's 12 million AIDS
orphans live in West and Central Africa and 85% of children suffering from
AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa. Globally, one child dies every minute
because of AIDS.
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