GERMANY: Nobel Laureates Honor Annie Lennox

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GERMANY: Nobel Laureates Honor Annie Lennox

Agence France Presse (11.11.09) - Friday, November 13, 2009

In Berlin Tuesday at a summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, former Eurhythmics singer Annie Lennox received the 2009 "Woman of Peace" award in recognition of her work to fight HIV/AIDS. Since 2003, Lennox's "SING" campaign has raised $2 million to build awareness of the disease's impact on women and children. SING works in concert with South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign to provide HIV prevention information, testing, and treatment in communities there. Lennox said she was inspired to act after hearing ex-political prisoner and former South African President Nelson Mandela describe the African AIDS epidemic as "genocide." In receiving the award, Lennox said, "I honor all the women working around the globe to reduce the effects of this pandemic. This is for them; they truly deserve it." To learn more about SING, visit http://www.annielennoxsing.com/.
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