Sport is unique in its ability to unify and galvanize people all over the world. Sportsmen and women are recognized as role models and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is creating partnerships with individuals and organizations to build on this – to raise awareness on AIDS issues and to help inform people about how to protect themselves against HIV infection. Sport is an exceptional platform to create greater public awareness in order to help countries meet their targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010.
"Score the Goals" comic book
“Be smart protect yourself” competition
THINK WISE and International Cricket Council World Cup
International Olympic Committe and Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (2005), Together for HIV and AIDS Prevention: A Toolkit for the Sports Community, Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland.
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2005), The Cricket HIV and AIDS Curriculum, Geneva, switzerland.
International Olympic Committee and Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (2004), Memorandum of Understanding between UNAIDS and the International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Michael Ballack
Date of birth: 26 September 1976
Nationality: Germany
Sport: Football
Date of appointment: June 2006
Personal website: www.michael-ballack.com
Quote: "AIDS is still around and I think that we should all work together to help others, I am proud to be a part of this campaign and to unite with such a star like Emmanuel to help raise awareness on this important issue".
Myung-Bo Hong
Date of birth: 12 February, 1969
Nationality: Korean
Sport: Football
Date of appointment: November 2011
Quote: “People living with HIV are people like you and me,” said Myung-Bo Hong during the appointment ceremony. “They have rights and should not be discriminated against. I am delighted to be working with UNAIDS to use sport to help bring an end to AIDS.”
Emmanuel Adebayor
Date of birth: 26 February 1984
Nationality: Togolese
Sport: Football
Date of appointment: March 2009
Personal website: adebayor-sharethejourney.com
Quote: "I have seen it with my own eyes – AIDS is not about rivalry – we must work together and help – I will, in my role as UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador, speak to head of states and governments to make welfare and not warfare."
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Programmatic Focal Points:
Mr. Richard Leonard
E-mail: Leonardr(at)unaids.org
Communications Focal Point:
Ms. Cheryl Bauerle
E-mail: Bauerlec(at)unaids.org
Ms. Barton-Knott Sophie
E-mail: Bartonknotts(at)unaids.org
Geneva (UNAIDS) - UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé travelled to the West African nation of Gabon on 23 January to lend his support to an innovative campaign launched by the Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation — a charitable organization run by Gabon’s First Lady. 
Source: UNAIDS – Winning the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) 2012 is something millions of people across Africa are dreaming of right now as the continent’s most prestigious football tournament gets underway in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. As nations join together in solidarity, spurring on their teams they should not forget that they are already winners…against AIDS.
Seoul (UNAIDS) – Iconic Korean football star, Myung-Bo Hong, was appointed as a UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador during a press conference held at Yonsei University in Seoul. In this capacity, Myung-Bo Hong will raise awareness on HIV prevention among young people and help break down the barriers of stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV, particularly within the Republic of Korea and across Asia. 
Monaco (UNOSDP) – Six UN organizations were awarded today with the prestigious Special Jury Prize at this year’s Peace and Sports Awards for their comic book project “Score the Goals – Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals”. The Prize was presented in Monaco at the 5th Peace and Sport International Forum in front of an audience of more than 500 prominent figures from politics, sport, the private sector, and civil society.
Rio de Janeiro (UNAIDS) — Ronaldo de Assis Moreira - the Brazilian football star also known as Ronaldinho - has accepted an invitation from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Brazil’s Ministry of Health to promote AIDS awareness through sport.
Moscow (UNAIDS) – On the eve of the International Forum on Millennium Development Goal (MDG)-6, the Government of the Russian Federation and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) co-organized a charity football match at the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium in Moscow in support of women and children living with HIV in Russia.
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