World AIDS Day 2009: World Condom Day

2009-12-02T02:40:00.000-08:00

In respect of World AIDS Day on December 1st, fresh Television commercials will be brought out. These unprecedented commercials which hope to crusade safe sex will not be featuring the yummiest celebrity nor will they be having any of our incumbent influential political leaders rooting on the populace to be safe and smart about sex. Rather, these latest commercials will boast none other than Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.

So what is the connecter is between safe sex and bloodstained dictators. Well, the crusade's tagline of AIDS is a mass murderer might put it all into perspective for you. The implicit topic of the campaign is that these three authoritarians have been liable for the demises of more or less the comparable count of individuals that have succumbed to AIDS. These pictures of the authoritarians are, hence, exploited to establish that AIDS is also a killer of the peoples in order to scare masses into utilising condoms correctly and consistently.

Naturally, a effort of this nature is not without its critics. In fact, there have been various AIDS/HIV charities and institutions that have already come forth to express that they do not back this fight. One spokeswoman for the National AIDS Trust states, "Of course there are many HIV organizations that run their own campaigns, however, I would think that (advertisement) is incredibly stigmatizing to people living with HIV who already face much stigma and discrimination due to ignorance about the virus. On top of this, it fails to provide any kind of actual prevention message. For example, use a condom, and may deter people to come forward for testing."

In the last a couple of years, there has been a fundamental reduction in terms of the world's interest in AIDS and HIV matters. Nonetheless, the amount of individuals who are buckling under to this disease each and every day has not slackened. In Point Of Fact, over 28 million citizenry across the world have gave in to AIDS, making this virus an unrivaled mass murderer. The fight was invented and brought forward to ensure that individuals around the world do not block that AIDS is still very much a killer that can target anybody. Because of this, the cause needed to employ shock value in order to get AIDS and HIV issues to the forefront of world news and people s minds.

Support for the commercial was provided by the German das Comitee on behalf of an AIDS Awareness committee within Germany. Photographs were shot by Uwe D ttmann. The film footage was directed by Ivo Weigert and produced by Doppelg nger-Film. All those who took part in creating this commercial cause offered to do so in order to help make it available for World AIDS Day 2009.

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World AIDS Day 2009: World Condom Day