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November 29, 2005

Miss Positive Russia?

by Staff

November 29, 2005—Russia’s surgeon general has hatched a World AIDS Day plan for a Miss Positive 2005 beauty pageant, according to Interfax news service. The contest aims to bring attention to one of the fastest-growing HIV rates in the world—while normalizing the illness in a country where it is heavily stigmatized.

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