October 18, 2007: Unite For Children Unite Against AIDS Campaign came to Chelyabinsk
The Global Campaign Unite For Children Unite against AIDS came to the Chelyabinsk region in Siberia. The funding raised by the Global Campaign enabled UNICEF Russia to launch a special campaign to inform thousands of people in this region about the ways HIV affects children, and to foster friendly attitudes in community members, specifically parents and teachers, towards children living with HIV. HIV/AIDS is an acute problem in the Chelyabinsk region where there are more than 20,000 people living with HIV out of a population of 3.6 million people and HIV prevalence is twice as high as Russian average. There are also 1,440 children born from HIV-positive parents. More than 1,000 pre-school and elementary school teachers of the Chelyabinsk region have already gone through the training program on HIV/AIDS issues. Workshops are held in the cities where most HIV-infected children live – Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Miass, and Zlatoust. Marina Monakhova, deputy principal of a school in the town of Kopeysk, says that “the teachers’ attitude to HIV-positive children changes dramatically after the workshops”. Chelyabinsk City Hall provided free advertising space on street billboards for the campaign posters, which feature Oleg Gazmanov, a Russian celebrity and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Oleg Gazmanov is leading this campaign, which promotes the basic right of children affected by HIV to attend ordinary pre-schools and schools together with other children.
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