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Around the world, AIDS has a child’s face. Some 15 million children
under 17 have lost one or both parents to the disease, the vast
majority in sub-Saharan Africa. These children, especially the girls,
must often leave school to earn money to care for their siblings and
the sick. They usually lack access to basic health care and are at
serious risk for exploitation, poverty and discrimination.

In Ethiopia, teens who have volunteered to become “advocates of hope”
are demonstrating what World AIDS Day really means by making a
difference in their communities. Fourteen teens were given digital
cameras for a week in August and asked to document their lives and ways
they were keeping the promise of fighting AIDS by caring for one
another, their families, their communities and themselves. Save the Children and ONE have teamed up to bring you a photobook from these children.

Today (November 18), Brad Pitt wrapped up a two day listening and
learning trip on AIDS, extreme poverty and trade with DATA (debt AIDS
trade Africa) in Washington, D.C. As an ambassador for the ONE campaign
(www.ONE.org), Pitt visited the nation’s capital to build upon his
experiences during two trips to Africa in the past year.

Pitt met with members of the NGO community, administration officials,
members of Congress from both parties and African farmers to discuss
life-saving programs that are making a real difference in Africa, what
more can be done and the ongoing international debate over reforming
trade rules to eliminate decades of oppressive trade subsidies that
have negatively impacted small African and American farmers alike.

Brad
Pitt with DATA (debt AIDS trade Africa) executive director Jamie
Drummond (left) and director of government relations Tom Hart (right)
during a two-day listening and learning trip on AIDS, extreme poverty
and trade in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy: J. Tayloe Emery, DATA)

This Sunday, Bono, lead singer of U2 and co-founder of DATA (debt
AIDS trade Africa) speaks with Ed Bradley on 60 minutes about U2 and
his efforts in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty.

Click here to learn more about this week’s show.

If you use MySpace add ONE as your friend – www.myspace.com/onetomakepovertyhistory. Join ONE on MySpace – where you can get updates, see the ONE spot and chat with fellow ONE activists.

Take a look at this article in the San Francisco Chronicle with Bono
talking about the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty and how
we are working, as ONE, together and making real progress. You can also
tune into their three part podacst about their meeting at
www.sfgate.com/blogs/podcasts

U2’s Bono makes fiery case for rocking the world with ambitious mission to eradicate global misery

“Wearing pink-tinted, wraparound glasses beneath a beat-up, perfectly
molded straw cowboy hat, the U2 front man said that although the United
States has much work to do and more money to give to fight poverty and
AIDS, the Bush administration had gone from a “standing start” to
tripling its aid to Africa over the past four years. He singled out the
president’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which has put a
quarter-million Africans on antiviral medication in the past year.
It is an amazing thing he’s pulled off,” Bono said. “Three years ago,
people would laugh openly, in your face, at the idea that we could work
with the administration on this stuff.

The firebrand rock star, in town for two sold-out shows earlier this
week at the Arena in Oakland, has been signing up audience members for
his One Campaign to Make Poverty History all along the “Vertigo” tour,
which has been playing to packed houses in America and Europe since
March. He hoped to get a million people; he got 2 million.”

Click here to read the full article

We invite you to visit this website where you can watch DATA co-founder Bono discuss global AIDS and extreme poverty.

Click here to watch UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Bono speak at the TIME Global Health Summit in New York City on November 3rd

U2 and ONE Campaign partner DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) have won MTV U’s
“The Good Woodie” award for Greatest Social Impact. Certainly all the
work Bono and YOU have done with ONE has played a huge role in this.
Thanks to you, ONE has become a movement of over 1.6 million Americans
who are standing up, saying to our leaders – we have the potential, the
power and the responsibility to make extreme poverty history – in our
lifetimes. We know it is possible, and together, as ONE we are making
real and tangible progress in pushing this movement forward – thank you!

You can watch MTV U’s Woodie awards on November 9th – visit www.mtvu.com.