BORN HIV FREE CAMPAIGN TAKES TO NEW YORK CROSSROADS DURING MDG SUMMIT
Geneva, 20 September 2010 - The BORN HIV FREE campaign
takes to the streets of New York and everyone's computer screens tomorrow in an initiative aimed at signposting world leaders in the direction of
decisive backing for the Global Fund and its work.
In partnership with Google and YouTube, the initiative will see campaign envoys taking up positions on the corner of strategic
Manhattan road intersections holding signs with compelling HIV facts and urging that we free future generations from HIV by 2015.
Designed to look like a mock road sign and intended to trigger a double-take, each of the 20 different signs contain a key
statistic that is specifically linked to each unique location.
The initiative is timed to coincide with the UN General Assembly gathering and the Millennium Development Goals summit
taking place in New York this week to assess progress on meeting mankind's most vital needs. With the fight against AIDS and HIV
at a crossroads, the Born HIV Free Crossroads initiative sign posts the way ahead for world leaders.
It is intended that the signs will be seen at multiple locations by delegates as they criss-cross the city between
hotel, summit and meetings. The signs are designed to draw attention to how close the world is to the major international
health breakthrough of the virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. A fully financed Global Fund will
help deliver it in just five years.
But you don't need to be on the ground to track the crossroads. Google will be mapping the event and you
can see the locations, texts and more about the campaign at an address to be launched soon.
The Global Fund is the world's largest financier of programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. On 4-5 October
donors and stakeholders will meet in New York to pledge their contributions for the next three years of The Global Fund's work.
This will have an enormous bearing on the future fight against HIV and AIDS.
So far, more than 15 million people have engaged with the Born HIV Free campaign, initiated and supported by
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, to show their support for the Global Fund and a world where no child is born with HIV.
The Born HIV Free Crossroads initiative is made possible thanks to YouTube.
The BORN HIV FREE web site was designed and developed by red design, and the YouTube Channel was developed by type3.
The campaign logo uses two ribbons
to embody the overarching theme: a small red ribbon, to represent a child, enveloped by a larger grey ribbon, representing the
love and care of a mother. Tiffany
& Co. has created a collector's item brooch of this logo and Jean-Paul Gaultier is producing a collector's item tee-shirt.
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The Global Fund is a unique global
public-private partnership dedicated to attracting
and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This partnership between
governments, civil society, the private sector and
affected communities represents a new approach to international health financing. The Global Fund works in close
collaboration with other bilateral and multilateral
organizations to supplement existing efforts dealing with the three diseases.
Since its creation in 2002, the Global Fund has become the dominant financier of programs to fight AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria, with approved funding
of US$ 19.3 billion in 144 countries. To date, programs supported by the Global Fund have saved 4.9 million lives through
providing AIDS treatment for 2.5 million people,
antituberculosis treatment for 6 million people and the distribution of 104 million insecticide-treated bed nets for
the prevention of malaria.
For more information, please contact:
In New York:
Claudia Gonzalez - Marketing and Branding Manager
Mobile: +41 79 445 13 57
E-mail: claudia.gonzalez@theglobalfund.org
In Geneva:
Liam McDowall - Print and Audiovisual Manager
Office: + 41 58 791 10 54
Mobile: + 41 79 580 83 22
E-mail:liam.mcdowall@theglobalfund.org
Rebeca Kritsch - Communications
Office: + 41 58 791 18 22
Mobile: + 41 79 441 89 37
E-mail: rebeca.kritsch@theglobalfund.org
Information on the work of the Global Fund is available at www.theglobalfund.org
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