The gist of it all......

WHAT IS WEARING A RED RIBBON?

We wanna welcome you officially to this blog. Under our theme, ‘Wear a Red Ribbon Today!’, we hope to add to the many voices fighting against HIV/AIDS around the world. Ours is mainly an awareness campaign through this blog and the blogosphere, all through which we believe more people shall come to learn about HIV and AIDS and shall, each one, strive towards living our lives more carefully. In this awareness campaign, we shall also promote the concept of “positive living” among people already infected by HIV/AIDS. “A friend with AIDS is still a friend” and “God loves embraces people with AIDS”.

Through the ‘Wear a Red Ribbon Today’ campaign, we are encouraging all bloggers with a heart to learn a little more about HIV/AIDS. This blog could be a good start for that. And as you learn more about HIV/AIDS everyday, it is our humble request that you advertise this knowledge through your wearing a red ribbon on any article of your clothing or accessories; the rationale here is that anyone who didn’t know about HIV/AIDS would ask you why you were the red ribbon…and this would be your cue to share your lessons learned on HIV/AIDS. You will have made a positive impact on the global fight against HIV/AIDS. One by one they say…

In addition, under the ‘Wear a Red Ribbon Today’ Blog campaign, we hope to get more people factoring HIV/AIDS into whatever they do. HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming: how does what you do (your work) increase/reduce vulnerability to HIV/AIDS for people that are not infected and how does what you do (your work) reduce/increase people’s vulnerability to cope with HIV/AIDS for people that are living with HIV/AIDS. In our future posts, we hope to tackle aspects such as these and others, more eloquently. So please stay glued here.

As you wear your virtual and physical red ribbons, please remember the reasons for which you were them and to share those reasons with others!

Cherie: “I wear the red ribbon because I figure it’s a simple way to remind myself of the “Promise”. Also, it’ll serve as a reminder to whoever sees it, of their own promise to stay HIV free. It will also encourage the HIV positive to live positively and protect themselves and others.”

Zack: “I wear my red ribbon to show my support for the fight against HIV/AIDS, but more importantly to remind me to factor HIV/AIDS in everything I do”)

This blog is still in its nascent stages and as a result, we ask you to bear with us should there be any changes with the template and/or layout design. We also welcome any feedback and/or positive criticism that you might have towards the initiative. We are thankful for the positive criticism from this blogger. You could do that in a comment or if it’s long, in an email. Our email address link is also present in the blog sidebar. If you want to contribute to this blog, you can also send us an email, and if possible, write a few lines explaining why you think you should participate in this campaign. This is a global initiative so applicants from around the world are welcome irrespective of whether your country of origin or residence is affected by HIV/AIDS or not.

As a good gesture, we shall be giving away a red red-ribbon freely to the first few bloggers (our rationale being six for each continent, but given we’re saying first to contact, then we believe it will still be o.k. if this number does not represent all the six continents) who request for them by email. Please note that this is just a promotional offer and once it’s over, we shall encourage everyone to go out and purchase an AIDS ribbon or other paraphernalia relating to the same, preferably from a cause that is supporting people living with HIV/AIDS in your local community or somewhere else around the world. Your money will go so far in the global fight against HIV/AIDS as a result.

Let’s go out and ‘Wear a Red Ribbon Today!’ you and me!

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Bloggers against AIDS

Ok, so our campaign took off. Quite literally. Given out some ribbons and I've none left as we speak. Though some of u were not as careful with yours. We are gonna try and get as many as possible then send them out to u.

The best response we have received so far is the one from Pea about expanding and generalizing it to Bloggers against AIDS. Great response and we are gonna see about it. It's surely a greater way to get the message across. But the tricky aspect is the handing out of the ribbons. Of course u're all welcome to this campaign/message/ and the more we are, the better it is for everyone.
And on our part, its seems a lil' bit jealous to make it only Ugandan like we're the only affected people.

Our bad.

Jump in and join the fight.

Hey y'all

The "Wear a Red Ribbon Today" is a new initiative from Ugandan Bloggers to start an awareness drive. This drive is intended to remind people to do everything to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. Everybody is targeted with this message. Unlike all these other messages designed for this purpose, this one is a simple one.

It basically involves a small red ribbon and you! Wear your red ribbon everyday and it will get the message across. Your ribbon will serve as a reminder to u and to whoever sees it that they made a promise they aren't going to break. The promise here is to protect ourselves from HIV/AIDS. By Abstaining from sex. Maintaining a faithful relationship with your sexual partner and using Condoms.

With this, we sure gonna conquer this demon. But, we need to keep reminding people about it. Its simple. This is how.... The ribbon is not that huge, it'll only cover like a small area on yo dress/shirt/blouse/top/jacket-whatever, wherever. Its red, one color, so it wont spoil yo ensemble. As part of your apparel, its guaranteed to raise some eyebrows and questions. And this is where your sensitization comes in. U tell them about its meaning and how its gonna work.

This is how.

Its gonna have a positive impact on the person wearing it and the person that sees u wearing it. This obviously is gonna raise a question or two from the seer. From this question, the person that asks is gonna learn the basic info that u're gonna give....which is that this ribbon is supposed to b a symbol of your fight against HIV/AIDS. Simple as that. The seer will definately love the whole idea and ask for a ribbon. This is when u refer them to TASO and African village. They have some bracelets and bangles.

At this point, u're free to tell them more about what u think of the ribbon vis a vis your anti HIV/AIDS campaign. Anything to juice up the whole thing. Make it pretty with the truth.

I hope I've helped.

We'll have some ribbons for u guys soon,,,in about a weeks' time. So feel free to ask for one. We're still tryna devise ways and means to get them to u. One of us will have some at the BHH next week.

Be there.

And also, this blog is open to contributors(mainly anti- AIDS contributions). So anyone will be welcome to post up here. Once we're done with the blog layout and some other stuff.

So, hold your fire. By Tuesday next week, u could be a contributor.

Testing!

Test Drive!