ADVISORY/Netaid.org Promotes On-Line Effort to Help Victims of Africa's Growing HIV/AIDS Crisis.Lifestyle/Feature Editors & High-Tech/Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Monday (Feb. 5) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Photo, Corporate Logo, Text --(BUSINESS WIRE) In an effort to help people hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic, Netaid.org and TIME Magazine are providing an easy way for Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f to learn about and support a variety of prevention, care and outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. initiatives in Africa and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. . An estimated 95 percent of the world's people with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. live in developing countries. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?1966 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news or information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download video, audio, text, graphics and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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