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UN Cares “Come Join Us!” Photo Campaign Video Launched for World AIDS Day
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UN Cares “Come Join Us!” Photo Campaign Video Launched for World AIDS Day
 
UN Cares today launched a campaign video based around the ongoing BE STIGMA FREE Photo Campaign, launched at the end of September to call for an end to HIV-related discrimination in the workplace. The campaign calls on UN staff and members of the public to send in photos of themselves holding signs showing anti-discrimination slogans, showing solidarity with people living with HIV and sending the message that discrimination in the workplace is never acceptable. To date, more than ten thousand people have submitted photos for the campaign.
 
In China, discrimination remains a key obstacle to the response to HIV, engendering fear and reluctance to seek access to HIV prevention and treatment services among those most at risk of infection. Discrimination in employment settings is particularly harmful and challenges one of the most basic human rights: the right to work and make a living. In China, this form of discrimination is very common: an International Labour Organisation study published earlier this year found that of 1000 respondents, nearly half did not believe that people living with HIV should receive equal employment opportunities; 65% of business managers surveyed believed that people living with HIV should not be treated equally in terms of employment.
 
With the generous support of Connected Culture and Communications, a Shanghai-based communications company, a video has been produced to support the campaign, which will be displayed in hotels across China thanks to the support of the Accor Hotel Group, a longstanding supporter of UNAIDS. The video will also be available through the UNAIDS Sina weibo account and on other social media platforms.
 
UN Cares is calling on more people to get involved by sending in their photos through the UNAIDS weibo (www.weibo.cn/unaidschina), or to unaidsphotocampaign@gmail.com. If you have not yet submitted your photo, why not come join us!