OneWorld, the online human rights and sustainable development network,
is pround to announce announce the launch of a new multimedia web portal
on HIV/AIDS. AIDSchannel.org, <www.aidschannel.org>, goes live to coincide
with World AIDS Day (1 December 2001).
AIDSchannel.org launches with a partnership of over 100 leading aid
agencies, human rights and campaign groups worldwide. The site aims to
promote understanding, knowledge sharing and action on AIDS as a
development, social, economic and human rights issue.
Across the world, AIDS claims the lives of nearly 8,000 people every
day. The epidemic has killed almost 25 million people since the first
officially recorded case 20 years ago and 40 million people are
currently living with HIV/AIDS.
"AIDSchannel.org uses the Internet to bring together civil society from
all continents to help limit the human suffering and devastation of
HIV/AIDS," said Priscilla Jere, director of OneWorld Africa centre in
Zambia where AIDSchannel.org is edited. "OneWorld invites everyone with
access to the web to join us online and connect to fight the global AIDS
crisis."
AIDSchannel.org carries stories and information from around the world in
one of the most comprehensive spaces on the web on HIV/AIDS. Channel
features include news, campaign actions, opinion pieces by leading
commentators, in-depth analysis, events listings, a beginner's guide to
HIV/AIDS and a dedicated search facility on AIDS.
AIDSchannel.org is a global platform for a global issue. The OneWorld
partners involved in the site share a particular concern to promote the
voices and concerns of people in developing countries. It is these
experiences of AIDS and these views on what should be done to fight the
AIDS epidemic that must be more widely heard.
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For more information about AIDSchannel.org and OneWorld contact:
Glen Tarman, Publicity Manager
tel: +44 (0)20 7735 2100
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Notes:
1. OneWorld is a non-profit network that aims to harness the democratic
potential of the Internet for human rights, sustainable development and
an end to world poverty. OneWorld brings together a partner community of
over 1000 organisations at www.oneworld.net.
2. OneWorld partners in AIDSchannel.org include: ActionAid, Association
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud, CAFOD, CARE, Christian Aid, DFID, Hivos,
InterAction, Journalists Against AIDS, Oxfam, Panos, Relief Web, Save
the Children, Stop AIDS Campaign, UNDP, UNICEF, Youth Against AIDS,
Voluntary Service Overseas, World Vision and many more.
3. OneWorld is a founding partner of the UNDP ICT Against AIDS
Coalition, an alliance of developed nations, developing country
governments, private sector companies, non-profit and academic
organisations aiming to strengthen the global response to HIV/AIDS
through greater access and more effective use of ICTs (information and
communications technologies).
4. Organisations working in the field of HIV/AIDS are invited to
participate in AIDSchannel.org. Find out more at
www.oneworld.net/partners/joining or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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