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26.11.2008 11:39

Barça reinforces its stand against AIDS

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FC Barcelona is the first sports club to be invited to the presentation of Unicef’s annual report on Aids.

On occasion of World AIDS Day, FC Barcelona has been invited by Unicef to the presentation of its report, Children and AIDS: Third Stocktaking Report, which presents the latest data on the evolution of the disease among children around the world.

The event will take place next Monday, December 1, at the United Nations headquarters. It will be attended by a group of FC Barcelona representatives headed by its president, Joan Laporta, vice president Alfons Godall and the general director of the Foundation, Marta Segú. The Unicef team attending the event will be made up of Jimmy Kolker, director of the HIV/AIDS program, Unicef and officers from UNAIDS and the WHO.

Presentation of the sporting sections at Barça

During the presentation of the report, FC Barcelona will review the actions it has promoted through its Foundation and in collaboration with Unicef to support the fight against Aids in Swaziland, Angola and Malawi. At the same time, the club will unveil a series of promotional videos (produced by Barça TV) that were created to raise awareness and inform about the projects that the Foundation and Unicef are working on together.

Temporary Pep Bonet exposition

After that, at the Unicef headquarters, the inauguration will be held in the Danny Kaye Visitors Centre of a photography exhibition titled Impact of HIV/AIDS: Life and hopes of orphans in Swaziland, with photographs by Majorcan Pep Bonet. The display, which was promoted by the Foundation and already went on show a few months ago at the Camp Nou, is the work of renowned photographer Pep Bonet and depicts the lives of the orphaned children living in remote rural regions of that country.