The Beginning of the End of Aids - World AIDS Day 2011

The Beginning of the End of AIDS", a live discussion panel hosted by ONE and (RED) on World AIDS Day, Thursday, December 1st from 10-12pm ET, streaming LIVE via YouTube. This live panel will feature President Barack Obama, former Presidents George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, Bono, Alicia Keys, and more.














The panel will tackle key questions of where we are today, where we're falling short, and what it's going to take to end this disease for good.



ONE and (RED) invite you to submit questions for their distinguished panel and you may have a chance of your question being asked live during the discussion. You may also vote on your question and many others that are already submitted.

Visit youtube.com/TheONECampaign to submit your question on ONE's YouTube channel now. Submissions close 15 hours from now.

BST Painting Print #2 Raised $305.00 for African Well Fund "Got Water" Fundraiser

Congratulations to the winner of the 2nd Bono Street Team Painting Print! The print raised $305.00 for the African Well Fund. The funds will help provide clean water and sanitation projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. There were 32 bids and 438 views!













This beautiful Bono Street Team Painting Print, created by artist Azalea Millet, was autographed by Bono on May 21, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. I donated the print as a gift to one of my favorite charities, the African Well Fund! This print was up for auction for the African Well Fund "Got Water" Fundraiser on Ebay.

Reinventing the Toilet - Gates Foundation

No innovation in 200 years has saved more lives than the toilet. But 2.6 billion people still don’t have a safe, affordable way to poop. Explore the infographic by the Gates Foundation below and learn how we can reinvent the toilet.



Tomorrow's Toilet:

We can achieve universal access to sanitation by making toilets that people like and can afford to use for less that give cents per user per day.

• Transport: 200 million latrines worldwide are emptied by hand - a dirty, dangerous job. New solutions can cut emptying cost to $10 per home per year and support thousands of well-paid jobs.
• Uptake: For every $1 that developing countries invest in creating affordable sanitation, they can generate $9 in economic benefits, including reduced health cost - a 900% return on investment.
• Treatment: By creating affordable "off-the-grid: toilets that recover valuable resources from our crap, we can achieve 100% if waste processing at $0 in cost.

Find out why we need a toilet revolution. We need new ideas to help reduce disease and find new ways to turn crap into valuable stuff, like fuel, fertilizer, and fresh water.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Pages/home.aspx

Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

(RED) & ONE - Fighting for an AIDS Free Generation by 2015

Join (RED) and ONE in our campaign to ask the @whitehouse to announce a bold global plan by World AIDS Day for prevention and treatment, pointing us towards the beginning of the end of AIDS. Tweet here: http://www.one.org/endofaids/.



We're at a critical time in the fight against AIDS - By 2015, we can virtually end HIV transmission from moms to their babies and help deliver a key milestone for the beginning of the end of AIDS. (RED), and ONE are standing together to help make this possibility a reality.


Source: joinred.com