MAC AIDS Fund Zaijuan 850,000 yuan used to promote Fang Yi
 
 
Beijing channel (2008-12-16 15:07:24) Source: Beijing Xinhua Channel
 
 
     Xinhua Beijing on December 15 (Reporter Zhang Xu) MAC AIDS Fund announced in Beijing on the 15th to the United Nations Children's Fund representative in China once again to donate 850,000 yuan to support "children and adolescents work together, hand in hand to fight AIDS" Ambassador of love young people, children and adolescents to support the global AIDS campaign in China to carry out the project. At this point, MAC AIDS Fund, the project has more than 1,850,000 yuan donation.

     "Young children together, hand in hand to fight AIDS" global campaign by the United Nations agencies in governments at the end of 2005 at the start of the United Nations headquarters to call for governments and civil society to build a broad coalition, to put young children to deal with AIDS The core. The project starts 3 years, great progress has been made, but the situation of young people infected with HIV are still not optimistic: UNAIDS "2008 Report of the global AIDS epidemic": in 2007 a year of the new infection, aged between 15 and 24-year-old young people account for 45%. However, developing countries have the right to AIDS prevention knowledge of young people, only 30% of men and women, only 19%, from the special session of the UN General Assembly Declaration of Commitment on AIDS in the establishment of the "in 2010, at least 95% of the 15-year-old to 24-year-old youth Men and women have access to HIV prevention information and education, "far from that goal.

     United Nations agencies and international organizations to support China in 2006 to start a five-year Chinese children and adolescents AIDS prevention activities. "And the rest of the world countries, many Chinese young children because of the lack of AIDS prevention knowledge and skills are still under the threat of AIDS, in which migrant workers, ethnic minorities and out-of-school children, especially young people." Of the United Nations UNICEF resident representative Dr. Wei Yingying said: "By supporting young ambassador of love, hope that the United Nations Children's Fund to mobilize young people's enthusiasm and creativity through easy-to-peer education and youth to accept the participatory approach, so that those who do not have the opportunity to learn Prevention knowledge and skills of young people make up the course as quickly as possible. "She believes that Chinese children and adolescents to prevent AIDS is not only the success of China and the world will have far-reaching consequences.

     MAC AIDS fund-raising mode in the world, through a MAC cosmetics brand retail consumption patterns, MAC, through their commitment to the cost of a product, this product to 100% of the retail revenue donated to the Foundation, the MAC AIDS since 1994 Since the creation of the Foundation, has so far raised a total of 130,000,000 U.S. dollars of the lottery, with an average annual subsidy of 400 AIDS prevention and control organizations.

     In 2007, MAC AIDS Fund through the sale of VIVA GLAM lipstick and lip gloss to the United Nations Children's Fund representative in China for the first time a donation of 1,000,000 yuan to support young people love the Ambassador project. In addition to this donation, MAC at the invitation of young people in the very young singer Li Yuchun's appeal as a charity ambassador in China to participate in them in order to arouse young people's interest in children's attention and understanding of AIDS. (END)
 
(Editor: Li Yuxin)