Prince Harry has joined Charlize Theron in a new AIDS campaign almost 40 years after princess Diana’s groundbreaking handshake with an AIDS patient.
At the height of the HIV/Aids epidemic in the 1980s, Prince Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, was one of the few public figures to visibly treat people living with HIV with compassion and humanity.
In 1987, she opened the first HIV/Aids unit at London’s Middlesex Hospital and, in front of the world’s press, shook hands with an HIV patient without wearing gloves – challenging the beliefs of some that the virus could be spread by day-to-day contact.
Prince Harry has now joined Charlize Theron, Magic Johnson and other celebrities in appearing in a short filmthat rallies for support for HIV/AIDS amid global cutbacks.
The UNAIDS project, which premiered Monday (22 September) at a United Nations assembly in New York, reiterates the aim of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 and also featured HIV activists Fabian Quezada and Andiswa Ci...
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