AFRO-NETS> Connect online to fight the global AIDS crisis: ICT Against AIDS

[Priscilla Jere <priscilla.jere@oneworld.net>]

Connect online to fight the global AIDS crisis: ICT Against AIDS
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OneWorld, the online human rights and sustainable development net-
work, today announced the launch of a new multimedia web portal on 
HIV/AIDS. AIDSchannel.org, <http://www.aidschannel.org>, goes live to 
coincide with World AIDS Day (1 December 2001). The site will be ed-
ited from OneWorld Africa centre in Zambia.

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 cur-
rently 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. "One-
World 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. Chan-
nel features include news, campaign actions, opinion pieces by lead-
ing 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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mail digest by sending an e-mail to: 
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For more information about AIDSchannel.org and OneWorld Africa con-
tact: 
Priscilla Jere
OneWorld Africa
PO Box 34571
Lusaka, Zambia 
Tel: +260-1-232-773 
Fax: +260-1-224-122
mailto:priscilla.jere@oneworld.net

Notes:

1. OneWorld is a non-profit network that aims to harness the democ-
ratic potential of the Internet for human rights, sustainable devel-
opment and an end to world poverty. OneWorld brings together a part-
ner community of over 1000 organisations at <http://www.oneworld.net>

2. OneWorld partners in AIDSchannel.org include: ActionAid, Associa-
tion François-Xavier Bagnoud, CAFOD, CARE, Christian Aid, DFID, Hi-
vos, 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 Coali-
tion, an alliance of developed nations, developing country govern-
ments, private sector companies, non-profit and academic organisa-
tions aiming to strengthen the global response to HIV/AIDS through 
greater access and more effective use of ICTs (information and commu-
nications technologies).

4. Organisations working in the field of HIV/AIDS are invited to par-
ticipate in AIDSchannel.org. Find out more at:
http://www.oneworld.net/partners/joining 
or 
mailto:aids@oneworld.net

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