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02-12-2007, 02:34 AM
Manchester United stars pitch in against Aids
THREE of Manchester United’s biggest stars have teamed up with Unicef, the
international children’s charity, to target Aids in Sierra Leone.
A series of giant posters featuring the players was unveiled yesterday to mark
World Aids Day. They will go up on billboards next month to promote HIV
awareness among the west African country’s 3m young people.
Ryan Giggs, 34, Rio Ferdinand, 29, and Patrice Evra, 26, a diplomat’s son who was
born in Senegal, Sierra Leone’s near-neighbour, appear together and separately
in the posters, which urge people to use condoms and get tested.
According to Unicef, 1.5% of the population are infected. That is low compared
with some African countries, but the number of reported cases has increased by
75% in the past five years.
Surveys show that as few as 17% of youngsters in Sierra Leone know how to
protect themselves against a disease that kills 4,400 people in sub-Saharan
Africa every day.
The footballers have also recorded a series of television and radio advertisements
at Manchester United’s training ground to help to spread the message.
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THREE of Manchester United’s biggest stars have teamed up with Unicef, the
international children’s charity, to target Aids in Sierra Leone.
A series of giant posters featuring the players was unveiled yesterday to mark
World Aids Day. They will go up on billboards next month to promote HIV
awareness among the west African country’s 3m young people.
Ryan Giggs, 34, Rio Ferdinand, 29, and Patrice Evra, 26, a diplomat’s son who was
born in Senegal, Sierra Leone’s near-neighbour, appear together and separately
in the posters, which urge people to use condoms and get tested.
According to Unicef, 1.5% of the population are infected. That is low compared
with some African countries, but the number of reported cases has increased by
75% in the past five years.
Surveys show that as few as 17% of youngsters in Sierra Leone know how to
protect themselves against a disease that kills 4,400 people in sub-Saharan
Africa every day.
The footballers have also recorded a series of television and radio advertisements
at Manchester United’s training ground to help to spread the message.
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