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WORLD AIDS DAY 2003:
STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION

"World AIDS Day is both a solemn observance and a call to action. It is a day on which we remember the millions of individuals—our friends and family members, public figures and the little-known—who have died since the epidemic began... It is a day of solidarity with the 30 million people around the world who are living with HIV... And it is a day on which we renew our commitment to helping individuals and nations prevent HIV transmission and alleviate the devastating impact of this epidemic."
—United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan, World AIDS Day 1997

UNAIDS "Live and Let Live" Posters: FREE (English & Spanish)

OneWorld/MTV Staying Alive World AIDS Day 2003 Competition

2003 AIDS Awareness Poster Competition (Brunei)

"World Aids Day 2003: Strategies for AIDS/HIV Education Programs (Press Release)

OVERVIEW

The Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) has resolved to aggressively combat the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on children and young adolescents. In the words of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, "World AIDS Day provides the international community with a unique opportunity to reassure those already affected of our support and to say no to discrimination and denial."

HISTORY

In January 1988, a meeting was held to discuss the powerful consequences of an emerging epidemic called AIDS. That day, 140 countries attending the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention unanimously agreed to support one internationally recognized campaign to combat HIV/AIDS. Now observed annually on December 1, the first World AIDS Day theme was "A World United Against AIDS."

As early as 1989, ACEI recognized the importance of education in the prevention of AIDS. In the spring issue of Childhood Education, the organization published M. Patricia Fetter's article "AIDS Education: Every Teacher's Responsibility." In it, Fetter, stated "Health officials cannot control the spread of AIDS without indepth education, and the critical environment for that education is the classroom."

Now, "twenty years after the world first became aware of AIDS, it is clear humanity is facing one of the most devastating epidemics in human history." (The Mounting Impact, UNAIDS' Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2002). While this may seem overwhelming, some think that the most important message educators can convey to their students may be that we are not powerless against this disease.

YOU CAN HELP BY OBSERVING WORLD AIDS DAY, DECEMBER 1, 2003

STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION is the official campaign theme for 2003.

In "Children with AIDS in the Early Childhood Environment" (Focus on Infancy, Vo. 5, No. 2, 1995) Jane Englebright Ahearne, MS, says that it is especially important that children with HIV and AIDS experience "a dependable and supportive environment where separation and isolation are kept to a minimum. They need opportunities to be successful and gain a sense of mastery and control."

Below are resources that ACEI has compiled to help you to raise HIV/AIDS awareness, stamp out discrimination of HIV/AIDS sufferers, provide information for prevention, and teach students that HIV/AIDS is not only the "problem" of developing countries.

PLEASE JOIN ACEI IN PROMOTING THREE KEY MESSAGES:

  1. Children and young adolescents must have access to accurate medical information and services necessary to develop life skills, as they are the group most affected by the prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
  2. As more teachers succumb to the disease, education institutions, organizations, and qualified individuals must fill these roles and help children to become healthy, productive adults.
  3. HIV/AIDS is a global epidemic that affects all societies and communities, not just those that fail to bring the disease under control.
Thank you for your support.

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WORLD AIDS DAY

"Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable."
—Amanda Heggs, AIDS sufferer. Quoted in The Guardian, June 12, 1989.

STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION is the official campaign theme for World AIDS Day 2003.

RESOURCES

HOW TO MAKE A RED RIBBON (international symbol of AIDS awareness)

Take ordinary red ribbon (about 1.5 cms wide) and cut it into strips about 15 cms long. Fold at the top into an inverted "V" shape and insert a safety pin through the center where you attach the ribbon to your clothing.
Courtesy of AVERT.org: http://www.avert.org/worldaid.htm

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WORLD AIDS DAY RESOURCES—ORGANIZATIONS

ACEI recognizes that teachers face an ethical issue of how and when to teach children about sex. Today, the issue is expanded to include the urgent question of how, when, and who should teach children about HIV infection and its relation to sex. ("Children with AIDS," P. Jessee, M. Nagy, D. Poteet-Johnson, Childhood Education, Vo. 70, No. 1).

The organizations listed below may help you in your attempts to communicate information to your students about HIV and AIDS.*

THE BODY: An AIDS and HIV Information Resource provides links to international health organizations worldwide as well as in Africa, Asia, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Latin America, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
http://www.thebody.com/hotlines/internat.html

AIDSCHANNEL.ORG: With individual sections for countries from Afghanistan to Zambia, this site brings together information and resources from civil society organizations, governments, research institutions, media, and others working in the field. It is a global platform for a global issue. http://www.aidschannel.org/

UNAIDS: In 1996, the United Nations drew six organizations together into one joint and cosponsored programme—the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The six original Cosponsors of UNAIDS—UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank—were joined in April 1999 by UNDCP. http://www.unaids.org/

AUSTRALIA
Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations is a non-government organization that provides information on a wide range of HIV/AIDS issues. http://www.afao.org.au/index.asp

CANADA
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network is a national, community-based, charitable organization that works exclusively in the area of policy and legal issues raised by HIV/AIDS. http://www.aidslaw.ca/home.htm

FRANCE: ACT UP PARIS offers news, pamphlets, petitions, and other resources, and includes special sections for AIDS and women, prostitutes, and the prison population. http://www.actupparis.org/

GHANA AIDS COMMISSION
 offers site visitors the option of learning "all there is to know about AIDS" or "the bare facts." It includes a poll, the national HIV/AIDS program, practical information and links to other resources. http://www.ghanaids.gov.gh/

HONG KONG
AIDS Concern is a grass-roots organization whose main aim is to generate extensive community involvement in the provision of AIDS education and support services through trained volunteers. http://www.aidsconcern.org.hk/
The mission of the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation is to limit the spread of HIV infection in the community and provide support to those affected by HIV/AIDS. http://www.aids.org.hk/

ISRAEL: JERUSALEM AIDS PROJECT
 In English and Hebrew, JAIP offers professional training that aims to increase knowledge about HIV/AIDS and explore ways to overcome biased attitudes to the subject. http://www.aidsnews.org.il/Welcome.html

SOUTH AFRICA: Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) researches prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, builds research infrastructure, trains researchers in South Africa. http://www.caprisa.org/

SOUTH AFRICA: Red Ribbon Resource Centre For all requests of HIV/AIDS materials (posters etc.), please contact: Tel: (011) 880-0405, Fax: (011) 880-8552

SOUTH AFRICA: South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative (SAAVI) s the research, development and testing of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. http://www.saavi.org.za/

SWEDEN
The International AIDS Society (IAS) uses advocacy, education, facilitation of scientific networks and debate, world conferences, and support for best practices in research, prevention and care to assist scientists and health care professionals who work with HIV/AIDS. News in English and Spanish. http://www.ias.se/index.asp

UNITED KINGDOM: The National AIDS Trust (NAT) is the UK's leading HIV and AIDS policy development and advocacy organization. NAT works in the UK and internationally for policies that will prevent HIV transmission, improve access to treatment, challenge HIV stigma and discrimination and secure the political leadership to effectively fight AIDS. http://www.nat.org.uk

UNITED KINGDOM
AVERT is a non-governmental organization that has AIDS information for children and adults, statistics, World AIDS Day, and other information relating to HIV/AIDS. http://www.avert.org

UNITED STATES: The Red Hot organization educates the public about AIDS through popular culture. Red Hot has produced twelve albums and related television programs, incorporating the talents of leading performers, producers, directors and visual artists to raise funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. A new documentary series produced by the organization is "Red Hot and Africa." http://www.redhot.com

UNITED STATES

  • CDC National AIDS Hotline, including a Spanish Service and TTY Service, is operated under contract with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.ashastd.org/nah/index.html phone: 1-800-342-2437

  • CDC National AIDS Hotline TTY Service offers an HIV/AIDS Videotape Resource List for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing http://www.ashastd.org/nah/tty.html phone: 1-800-243-7889

  • CDC National AIDS Hotline Spanish Service handles questions about prevention, risk, testing, treatment and other HIV/AIDS- related concerns http://www.ashastd.org/nah/sida/index.html phone: 1-800-344-7432

  • Children With AIDS Project of America offers a variety of services for children infected/affected by AIDS or drug exposed infants who will require foster or adoptive families. http://www.aidskids.org/

  • HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services resource for federally approved treatment guidelines for HIV and AIDS. http://www.hivatis.org

  • Lifebeat, the Music Industry Fights AIDS, is a national non-profit organization dedicated to reaching America's youth with the message of HIV/AIDS prevention. http://www.lifebeat.org/home/index.jsp

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) World AIDS Day Web page provides information on the diverse array of HIV/AIDS research activities being sponsored by NIH. http://worldaidsday.nih.gov

  • U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE Plus provides links to news, alternative treatments, disease management and other HIV/AIDS topics. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aids.html

*Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to link to reputable sites containing accurate information about HIV/AIDS, the provision of links to external sites does not constitute endorsement by ACEI. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate the site's information based on individual needs and community standards prior to use.

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WORLD AIDS DAY RESOURCES—LESSON PLANS/SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

"We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country."
— Larry Kramer, writer, AIDS activist, and Obie Award winner for Destiny of Me

LESSON PLANS/SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

In "Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles in AIDS Education for Preteens" (Childhood Education, Vol. 73. No. 2) Linda Rodrick-Athans and Navaz Peshotan Bhavnagri describe and evaluate a comprehensive AIDS education program for preteens and adolescent attitudes that act of barries to effective AIDS education. In the past, most lesson plans that focused on HIV and AIDS were written for young adolescents; now, educators realize that AIDS education must come sooner, and curriculum that is appropriate for elementary school children has been developed.

Below are lesson plans and suggested activities that have been developed by other organizations.*

Suggested Activities from Various Sources:

  • Hold a "chat" to discuss HIV/AIDS related issues with local teens (Bulgaria)
  • Walk wearing red ribbons and distributing leaflets, end at an AIDS Awareness Party (Croatia)
  • Present an educational forum for students and community members (Ghana)
  • Collect monetary donations for a local AIDS charity (Spain)
  • Sponsor a poster exhibition (Sudan)
  • Organize a candlelight vigil (South Africa)
  • Educate students through a questionnaire and leaflet (Turkey)
  • Lecture on HIV/AIDS, its transmission, prevention and treatment (Yugoslavia)

WHEN YOU PROVIDE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH DEVELOPMENTALLY AND LOCALLY APPROPRIATE, TARGETED INFORMATION ABOUT HIV/AIDS, YOU:

  • promote safe behavior and help prevent new cases
  • demonstrate that people living with HIV/AIDS should not be stigmatized
  • direct students' attention to HIV-positive leaders and advocates
  • show how the epidemic affects your own country's economies and communities
  • encourage political leadership to find effective responses to HIV/AIDS

*Please note that while every effort has been made to link to reputable sites containing accurate information about HIV/AIDS, the provision of links to external sites does not constitute endorsement by ACEI. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate the site's information based on individual needs and community standards prior to use.

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WORLD AIDS DAY RESOURCES—FREE GRAPHICS, POSTERS, BOOKLETS, ETC.

"Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you."
— Anna Quindlen, journalist, author. Quoted in The New York Times, December 9, 1993.

 

FREE GRAPHICS, POSTERS, BOOKLETS, ETC.

ACEI realizes that many teachers choose to create their own subject-focus curriculum, based on certain circumstances, including students' age level and community standards. The following organizations have material available (free) that you can customize to fit your needs.*

AVERT: http://www.avert.org/resource.htm
A resources page offers free posters and booklets to download and print (UK)

Day With(out) Art: http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/
Download copyright- free posters, postcards and public service announcements (US)

Freegraphics.com: http://www.freegraphics.com/wad.html
Free graphics, including the "Red Ribbon" AIDS awareness symbol (US)

National AIDS Trust: http://www.worldaidsday.org/campaign/
Free Introduction to Media Relations document. World AIDS Day materials and posters available for purchase. (UK)

UNAIDS: http://www.unaids.org/wac/2002/index_en.html
Free reports, campaign documents, and posters (SWE)

YouthAIDS: http://www.youthaids.org/special/ya_campaign.html
Free video public service announcements from popular musicians, including Alicia Keyes, Destiny's Child, and Justin Timberlake.

HIV/AIDS NEWS

Global Health Council
http://www.globalhealth.org/news/search.php3?category=aids&offset=0

 


"Community Manifesto: A new Response to HIV and STDs" was created and circulated by the MSM/HIV/AIDS Taskforce in Seattle, Washington; gay and bisexual men are encouraged to sign it. The manifesto will be posted with the names to mark World AIDS Day 2003. http://www.metrokc.gov/health/apu/taskforce/

Africa's Right to Health Campaign has an online Endorsement Form that you can complete and submit to be added as a campaign endorser, receive periodic information updates, and participate in actions (e.g. letters, calls, protests) to achieve campaign objectives.http://php.africaaction.org/action/righttohealth.php#form

The International Cricket Council will team with UNAIDS to raise awareness among the young. The group will hold HIV awareness-related activities at cricket matches and provide curriculum to cricket coaches on the local level.

Steve Taylor, a Christian rock singer and producer; Bono, front man for rock band U2; and Matt Slocum of the band Sixpence None the Richer; spoke on behalf of ''Keep America's Promise to Africa," a delegation of faith-based and other groups who have called on President Bush and Congress to fully fund AIDS and anti-poverty initiatives in the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill.

In early 2004, "Jimmie Hatz" condoms will be available in drugstores. Hip-hop elements are incorporated into promotional materials, including a bulldog mascot, and on the package, graffiti lettering, and the slogan "For Players Puttin in Real Work." Artists KRS-One, Queen Latifah, and De La Soul refer to condoms as "jimmy hatz" in their songs.

To raise AIDS awareness, Ethiopian men's World and Olympic marathon champion Gezahegne Abera and marathoner Elfenesh Alemu opened their wedding to the public in a 30,000-seat stadium in Ethiopia. The bride's train, nearly 1,000 feet long, included anti-AIDS ribbons and the slogan, "Let's fight AIDS together."

Recording artist and essayist Me'shell Ndegeocello, along time supporter of the Red Hot organization, recently contributed to Red, Hot and Riot: the Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti, a project to raise HIV awareness.

In 2002, American boxer Roy Jones, promoted AIDS awareness in Kenya, and hoped to stage his light-heavyweight title fight, dubbed "The Ultimate Battle against AIDS," in Nairobi. [The fight will be held in the U.S.]

*Please note that while every effort has been made to link to reputable sites containing accurate information about HIV/AIDS, the provision of links to external sites does not constitute endorsement by ACEI. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate the site's information based on individual needs and community standards prior to use.

QUOTATIONS

The quotations below come from a variety of people, including health officials, policymakers, media outlets, AIDS sufferers, and popular celebrities.

"Every one person is not the same. So you need to be educated if you are positive with HIV to know what questions to ask your doctor."
—TLC's Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, August 2003, AP Radio

"I'm just very aware that so many people are becoming infected from shame and ignorance and if I can be any kind of person to shed light on that -- don't die from being ashamed."
—Recording artist Me' shell Ndegeocello, to PopMasters, October 7, 2003

"I'm like ready to get on a bus and go to every black community and be like 'hey y'all' at the end of the day, how can we make it better, because this is gonna kill us. This where I get on my soapbox, this is going to kill us. I'm hoping that the heterosexual community gets off their high horse."
—Recording artist Me'shell Ndegeocello, to PopMasters, October 7, 2003

"The youngest child we came across that was the sole person taking care of the parent was four years old. In most of the cases the children were doing an adequate job of taking care of the adult, but they also complained that they were tired at school or even unable to attend classes."
—AIDS researcher Anne Barnard, AIDS Symposium, August 2003

"If there is not a large-scale solution, five million South Africans will die in 10 years. No country can survive a calamity like this."
—Fareed Abdullah, director general of health in South Africa's Western Cape province, AIDS Symposium, August 2003

"It's almost like Armageddon, equivalent to something really big hitting the planet. Losing this battle is not an option."
—Lee Jong-wook, UN's World Health Organization, August 2003

"Somewhere in Durban, a mugger is sitting with a possible AIDS vaccine."
—James Mullins, professor of microbiology, George Washington University, after a laptop containing years of research was stolen from him at knifepoint at an AIDS Symposium in South Africa, August 2003

"At the time, I thought this was a gay white man's disease. " After [a teenager on a basketball team he coached] confided in me that he was positive, I looked at the Centers for Disease Control Web site. The infection rates among African-Americans and Latinos are staggering...This is my personal crusade to save my people."
—Harry Terrell, founder of Jimmie Hatz, "the official condom of the hip-hop kulture," to The Denver Post, October 7, 2003

"There needs to be a lot more attention paid to the HIV epidemic in the United States. People need to realize there's still no cure and no vaccine. Our greatest enemy in HIV prevention is ... complacency about our epidemic here."
—Dr. Jim Curran, Dean of Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, and a former AIDS director with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 2003

"We are accountable for our behavior — to ourselves, our sex partners, and our community. ... Transmitting HIV knowingly is an act of violence."
—"Community Manifesto: A new Response to HIV and STDs"

"Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable."
—Amanda Heggs, AIDS sufferer. Quoted in The Guardian, June 12, 1989.

"The challenge of World AIDS Day is to translate understanding and awareness of HIV/AIDS into positive action and a more effective and coordinated public policy response around the world."
—UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali [World AIDS Day message: 1 December 1996]

"Young people are a powerful influence for education and understanding in their families, their peer groups, their schools, their communities and their countries. On this World AIDS Day, let us recommit to our investment in young people everywhere—for they hold the key to a safer future."
—UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan [World AIDS Day message: 24 November 1998]

"We all need to open our eyes, and not dismiss AIDS as 'someone else's issue'."
—Deputy Secretary-General Louis Frechette [World AIDS Day message: 1 December 2000]

"No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic. I was a soldier. But I know of no enemy in war more insidious or vicious than AIDS. Will history record a fateful moment in our time, on our watch, when action came too late?"
—US Secretary of State Colin Powell [Address to the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, 25 June 2001]

"Aside from our moral obligation to battle this disease, it is simply common sense to recognize that it is in the world's economic self-interest. But fighting HIV/AIDS should not only be motivated by economic self-interest. Fighting the disease should be about human beings who have the ability to engage by willingly pulling up their sleeves to help fellow human beings..."
— AFL-CIO, Executive Council [1 August 2001]

"People are suffering and people are dying. A whole generation of children are growing up without their parents, condemned to live their lives in poverty. Tens of millions of people have died of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This is a new holocaustÉ How many tens of millions more people have to die before we address this situation seriously? Future generations of historians will debate why it took the world so long to respond to the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. They will probably conclude that the delay is as immoral as it is incomprehensible."
—Vice President Justin Malewezi of Malawi [Opening statement at a Global Fund consultation, Malawi, 13 November 2001]

It is now common knowledge that in HIV/AIDS, it is not the condition itself that hurts most, but the stigma and the possibility of rejection and discrimination, misunderstanding and loss of trust that HIV positive people have to deal with."
—Rev. Canon Gideon Byamugisha, Namirembe Diocese, Anglican Church of Uganda [Global Consultation on the Ecumenical Response to the Challenge of HIV/AIDS in Africa" November 2001]

"HIV and AIDS touches everyone, it kills without conscience, rich or poor, black or white, young or old. More than ever before, we need to focus on what unites us, not divides us."
—Sean Combs, AKA "P. Diddy," US recording artist and producer [November 2001]

"As we search for solutions to HIV/AIDS in the months and years ahead, let us not expend our energies searching for reasons why we should not act and why our efforts might fail; rather let us apply ourselves, collectively, to the task of developing sustainable programs and interventions that will overcome the scourge of HIV/AIDS."
—Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, (U.S.) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health [1 December 2001]

"Part of winning the war on terrorism is winning the war on poverty. We've had the wake-up call. If we stand by and watch [Africa] go up in flames, the price won't be paid solely in African lives."
—Bono, Irish recording artist/U2 [1 February 2002]

"The vision which fueled our struggle for freedom; the development of energies and resources; the unity and commitment of common goals - all these will be needed if we are to bring AIDS under control. This is a war. We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying."
—Former South African President Nelson Mandela [17 February 2002]

"Sixty percent of the new AIDS cases in the U.S. are among Black teens aged 13 to 19. The only way for things to get better is for us to get involved."
—Ja Rule, U.S. Recoding Artist [3 April 2002]

"AIDS isn't another thing where you can just sign a bill and it's going to go away. It's still here and we still need help. We still need funding and we still need research."
—Justin Timberlake, US recording artist/'NSync [April 2002]

"The South African version of 'Sesame Street' is introducing a character with a problem far more serious than scraped knees or missing cookies. She is HIV-positive. The Muppet character will join the cast of the children's show in September to help educate children about AIDS at the urging of the South African government."
—Reported by David Bauder, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [13 July 2002]

"As AIDS has claimed the village, [Mosvold] hospital has become the community's center. A well-worn dirt path leading up to it from the center of town is testimony. In the in-patient wards—ŐThey're all AIDS wards,' said a doctor—every bed is full. So many people are dying each week at Mosvold that bodies are often stashed two to a drawer, and a refrigerated storage container has been added to handle the overflow."
—Reported by Laurie Goering, The Chicago Tribune [28 August 2002]

"What researchers fear most: AIDS is about to explode in the world's most populous nations—China and India. Each has more than a billion citizens, most of them impoverished. Neither country has comprehensive AIDS awareness programs or adequate health care."
—Reporters Tim McGirk and Susan Jakes for Time magazine [30 September 2002]

"AIDS does not discriminate. It doesn't matter what your class, sex, age, or colour is, and the statistics grow more and more frightening every day."
—Mary J Blige, U.S. recording artist [October 2002]

"To describe this as the greatest threat to humanity since the bubonic plague killed off two-thirds of Europe in the Middle Ages - it's of that order and it's happening in our time, and it needs the theatre, it needs the drama to get [the idea] across to the people of the United States."
Bono, Irish recording artist/U2 [undated 2002]

"The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity—between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?"
—UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan [undated]

"I think [AIDS] is one of the biggest problems on the planet, absolutely. It's something that's going to affect everybody in one way or another. I think that one of our biggest issues as humans is that we don't look at each other as part of the same life."
—Alicia Keys, US recording artist [undated]

"It is possible to have a generation without HIV/AIDS—we are the ones to make it possible."
—Graça Machel, wife of Former South African President Nelson Mandela [undated]

"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug : Heaven knows they need it."
—Princess Diana, Duchess of York [undated]

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