The Red Ribbon Award 2008 is now open for nominations

The red ribbon is a global symbol in the movement to address AIDS. The Red Ribbon Award, launched on World AIDS Day, will honor and celebrate twenty-five outstanding community organisations, that demonstrate leadership and action in curtailing the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS in the following five categories:

    * Providing access to care, treatment and support for people living with HIV.
    * Promoting human rights and addressing social injustices including homophobia, sexism and any other example of stigma and discrimination.
    * Empowering women and girls and addressing gender inequalities that fuel the spread of HIV.
    * Providing support to children orphaned by AIDS and other vulnerable children
    * Promoting HIV prevention programmes and services.

The "Red Ribbon Award: Celebrating Community Leadership and Action on AIDS" provides a unique opportunity to support and publicize the work of communities who are finding innovative and effective ways to address the AIDS epidemic and secure livelihoods around the world. Displaying extraordinary courage, resilience and strength, community-based organizations are indeed showing us in practical terms how to contain a global epidemic — one community at a time.
More information on the programme and selection criteria
Nominations are accepted from December 1, 2007 to February 29, 2008.
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