World Aids Day - 1st December
Marie-Helene Tyack
Global Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging Manager| Chair of the Global Allianz Pride Board | Winner 'Head of Diversity' Diva Awards 2024| Winner 'Inspirational Role Model' Rainbow Honours 2023
To mark World Aids Day,??"27000@25: When We Were Boys", a reworked project raising awareness of HIV has been released. This video was released for the first time during Pride in London in 1996. I was there and clearly remember the tangible emotion in the crowd as Jimmy Somerville sang and 27 000 red balloons were released into the London sky - representing the number of people living with HIV in the UK at the time.
?25 years later the message is very different and the world is a very different place for people living with HIV but for me personally this short film really struck a chord as I remember that day and the emotion, as well as all the people that I know that have been affected by HIV and?AIDS.
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