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Visual AIDS commission for AIDS IS NOT OVER for the Red Ribbon campaign

World AIDS Day, is December 1, 2011 and this year, it will be 20 years since the start of the red ribbon campaign. In the next two weeks at homes, cafes, subway cars, offices and institutions people will be coming together to MAKE the red ribbons with the updated version that includes a button. The button states: AIDS IS NOT OVER and Visual AIDS, commissioned four artists: A.K. Burns, John Chaich, Joe De Hoyos, and Avram Finkelstein to produce the updated version representing “compassion for people living with AIDS and their caretakers; and support for education and research to effective treatments, vaccines or a cure.”

MAKING the AIDS IS NOT OVER red ribbons

A group came together on November 12, 2011 to MAKE the ribbons, 10,000 of which will be distributed throughout New York on December 1st. The process of making is the process of doing and if you or anyone that you know can take the time the materials are at Visual AIDS.

Since 1991, everyone from my mother to Elizabeth Taylor, Annie Lennox and Nelson Mandela donned the ribbons that showed an awareness and involvement that is necessary and as is stated, not over.

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