By Angela Bronner, BlackVoices.com
No, it's not still Christmas -- but just as more companies are going GREEN for the environment, more companies are going RED in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Fashion retailer H&M and Designers Against AIDS (DAA) recently launched "Fashion Against AIDS" which hits H&M stores in February 2008.
Rihanna, Ziggy Marley, Timbaland, Good Charlotte, The Cardigans, Rufus Wainwright and MANY others have designed their own shirts for the collection which range from LOUD to more understated.
The idea is to increase young people's awareness of HIV/AIDS with affordable ware: T-shirts, tank tops and hooded sweaters that retail from about $15 to $40. Twenty five percent of sales will benefit global org, YouthAIDS.
Twelve million young people in the 15-24 age group are now infected with the HIV virus.
Every fifteen seconds someone in the 15-24 age group contracts HIV/AIDS.
"Supporting YouthAIDS through the Fashion Against AIDS campaign was a great way to encourage my fans to join me in the fight against HIV/AIDS," says 19-year-old Rihanna.
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By: Coletta Renee on 1/08/2008 9:20PM
I love the article Angela!!!! Love it! Werk :-)
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By: Natalia on 1/08/2008 11:09PM
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By: jo on 1/08/2008 11:44PM
keep doing the wonderful work you are trying to do inorder to make HIV/AIDS heard loud and clear.
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By: kelly on 1/09/2008 9:01AM
my friends tell me there are so many sex photos about her in http://blackcentury.com.andwho knows she had a profile at that web which is a niche interracial dating site? She had a hot video there. She is really sexy with bikini in that video. someone thought it is naughty. but I don’t think so
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By: kelly on 1/09/2008 9:11AM
This dude is found at the interracial club blackcentury.com a moment ago. He has created a personal profile to seek young and hot girls out of his race there.
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By: sunshine111 on 1/10/2008 8:25AM
aids is not going anywhere for reason that most of the money raised is not being used to fund its potential use. do you know how many years this disease has been out here do you know how much money have been raised for this disease? do you know who the money is going to for the research? there should have been a cure. all i can say is people wake up this disease is no joke like we use the motto say no to drugs i will also like to add my motto say no to unprotected sex and yes to frequent physicals and checkups. this disease is no joke
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By: sunshine111 on 1/11/2008 11:50AM
this disease is not going anywhere. its up to us as individuals to proptect ourselves its either abstinence or risk and i chose abstinence to protect myself.
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By: JC on 1/11/2008 9:00AM
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By: Bondye si Bon on 1/11/2008 4:35PM
Erzulie la Flambeau : L'ART de la Haute Couture
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By: jane on 1/19/2008 7:50PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21786477
AIDS vaccine volunteers may be at risk
Merck to let participants in failed study know who got active shots
updated 12:16 p.m. ET, Wed., Nov. 14, 2007
WASHINGTON - Thousands of people who volunteered to test an experimental AIDS vaccine that may have actually raised the risk of infection will be told if they got the actual shot, researchers said on Tuesday.
Merck & Co. Inc. and academic researchers said they would "unblind" the study, meaning everyone would find out who got the active shot and who got a dummy injection.
Two international trials of the experimental vaccine were stopped in September after it became clear the vaccine did not prevent infection with the AIDS virus.
The trials were conducted in the United States, Peru, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Australia and South Africa.
Earlier this month, researchers said they saw some worrying indications that the vaccine somehow raised the risk of infection, although they stressed the vaccine could not itself cause HIV infection.
They had already begun counseling volunteers that they could be at higher risk of HIV, a fatal and incurable virus that causes AIDS.
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