features - issue 73/74

the journey of a thousand miles

positive nation
Dani Behr

World Aids Day is now in its 14th year. Keith Winestein has been involved in co-ordinating the UK's World Aids Day campaign with the National Aids Trust for the last eight years. He recalls: "The first theme for World Aids Day in 1988 was 'Join the Worldwide Effort', following a unique international summit of health ministers who had met in London earlier that year."
Since then, each World Aids Day has provided an opportunity to highlight different groups affected by HIV, and to give

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'Where can I pin this?' Dani Behr reclines on a bed of ribbons for THT

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thousands of people everywhere the chance to say and do something in the fight against HIV/Aids.
Here are some of the people across Britain, big and small, famous and not-so-famous, who have joined the mighty red ribbon in the fight, the commemorations, and the fun over the years. As Keith reminds us, in the words of the Chinese proverb: 'The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.'

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