ONE » PASADA http://www.one.org/blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:50:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Bono on Idol http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/10/bono-on-idol-2/ http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/10/bono-on-idol-2/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:02:56 +0000 Virginia Simmons http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/10/bono-on-idol-2/ Read More »]]> Idol Gives Back just featured Bono during his trip to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In the piece Bono was next to a woman named Elisa. A photo is below.

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[Elisa was banished by her family when they discovered she was HIV-positive. The rejection led Elisa to try to take her own life several years ago, but thankfully she then got help from a wonderful local health care facility called PASADA and today she is on AIDS medication and doing very well. She has become a volunteer in her community, working with TB patients, and is engaged to be married. PASADA's work is funded in part by America, via contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and PEPFAR.]

-Virginia Simmons

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