Ukrainian musicians and TV presenters to become volunteers of ANTIAIDS Foundation before today's concert of Elton John

ANTIAIDS Foundation managed by Elena Franchuk is going to arrange a free distribution of leaflets on HIV-AIDS and condoms to the audience before the concert of Elton John on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv.

200 volunteers of the Foundation are expected to take part in the event. Most of them are students of Kyiv City universities. The volunteers will wear red T-shirts and baseball caps with the logo of ANTIAIDS Foundation and carry red bags with symbols of the Foundation.

Among volunteers, participating in the event, there will be renowned Ukrainian musicians and TV presenters, who have showed responding to the request of the Foundation. The consent has been already given by TV presenters of 1TV channel, Karolina Ashion, Andrey Kishe, Miroslav Kuvaldin, Viktoriya Batui, Ukrainian music bands, «XS», «Alibi» and «Aviators», musicians, Nastya Kamenskikh and Potap, and also the producer of Andrey Danilko, Yuri Nikitin.

As was reported earlier, a world known composer and singer, Sir Elton John would play a free charitable concert on Independence Square on June 16, which would be broadcasted live by "New Channel".

According to the founder of ANTIAIDS Foundation, Elena Franchuk, this concert will help to enhance AIDS awareness within Ukrainian community. Today, it is not enough to inform about the disease and ways of its transmission or prevention. Today, our target is to change the patterns of people's behavior, to teach them how to live within uncontrolled AIDS epidemic epoch' But AIDS is not a distant problem any more. It's not a problem of risk groups as it used to be. There is no more somebody's problem, it's everybody's problem from now on. It's not true any more to think of HIV as a disease of the most at-risk population. We should think of HIV as our disease that affects ourselves, our relatives, our friends and neighbors. We're all on the edge', - Elena Franchuk emphasized.

Later this May, ANTIAIDS Foundation launched a new program 'On the Edge', and within this program the Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation and the Elton John AIDS Foundation agreed to launch a joint project The ANTIAIDS Foundation is to allocate $2.5 million during 5 years for HIV/AIDS positive children. According to the socio-economic forecast of HIV/AIDS epidemic conducted by the World Bank, 40,000 children will become full orphans and up to 169 thousand children will lose one of their parents due to the AIDS epidemic by 2014. Today, there are 10% out if 2, 5 thousand of new-born infants in Ukraine, which get infected by HIV positive mothers, while in France this figure amount to 1-2 children per year.

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