In a December 11 interview with the Associated Press, members of the ONE campaign discussed ONE Vote ’08, an effort to encourage the next president of the United States to commit to the global fight against poverty, hunger and diseases such as HIV/AIDS (ap.google.com, 12/12).
According to the AP, the campaign’s 30-second ad will air tomorrow, December 14, in Iowa and New Hampshire, and will run for two weeks on network cable. Supplementing the television ad will be print advertisements and direct mailings. The group hopes to encourage candidates from both parties to discuss their strategies for fighting global poverty and disease.
ONE was created in 2004 by rock superstar and Nobel Prize-nominated activist Bono. It currently has 2.4 million members.
While the AP reports that most candidates have participated in the campaign, either by turning in a questionnaire or submitting a video, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson—both of them Republican candidates—have yet to respond.
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Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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Overheard in the Women's Forum
"I recently met a guy who is negative. I did tell him about my status and he decided to kiss me anyway (we didn't go further than that). But a day later, he called and said that he actually had a mouth ulcer that time when we kissed and he was very worried. Asked if he can get the virus from me that way. For that moment, I felt so insulted and yet I felt so bad. It was my first time having a contact with a "negative" guy."
