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Connect to fight the global AIDS crisis: OneWorld launches AIDSchannel.org

PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release

30 November 2001

Connect to fight the global AIDS crisis: OneWorld launches AIDSchannel.org

OneWorld, the online human rights and sustainable development network, today announced 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 to be 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 about 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: media@oneworld.net

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 François-Xavier Bagnoud, CAFOD, CARE, Christian Aid, DFID, Hivos, InterAction, Journalists Against AIDS, Oxfam, Panos, Relief Web, Save the Children, 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 aids@oneworld.net.