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Virtual Reality: Fullscreen Panoramas
Hans Nyberg from “panoramas.dk” and Marco Trezzini of “VRMAG.org” have teamed up to create the web site “Fullscreenqtvr.com”. Together they have collected and created ten thousands of QuickTime Virtual Reality and Java panoramas…
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ARTE.TV: Best General Overview on AIDS
We always liked Jean-Christophe Victor geo-political series “Le Dessous des Cartes” for European TV station Arte.tv. Every week since years he describes political topics with maps and info graphics. And for each episode there is a slide show with all the graphics put online. This year they have also created a 3-part special on AIDS…
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World AIDS Day: Speeches, Speeches, Speeches
Like at every “World AIDS Day” before it is also the day of speeches and memorandums. And clapping each other’s back to tell how great work we all do. The same has happened for more than 30 years within the “fight” against Malaria and Tuberculosis and – let’s face it - there is lots of room for improvement and more efficiency. Maybe people should just start getting the job done and…
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UNAIDS: People and Organizations of Today
The faces and logos of UNAIDS Cosponsors, Special representatives, Partners and leaders with their message for todays World AIDS Day…
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Corruption in Humanitarian AID and Health Care
Below you find links and summaries of some resources on the web that might be helpful as a starting point to understand the topic and issues of corruption with AIDS and health work in general…
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AIDS: Some less known facts on the disease (1)
Following below the first part of facts and thoughts on AIDS that most people don’t know…
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Henning Mankell: I Die, But My Memory Lives On
Most of us might know Henning Mankell for his Wallander crime novels but he has recently also published a non-fiction book on AIDS in Africa. The book is called “I Die, but My Memory Lives on: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project”. Mankell who spent a substantial amount of his life in Africa, has with the “Memory Book Project” provided an opportunity to those dying of AIDS to create a record of their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind…
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01-December-2006: World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day and we want to contribute by publishing some stories and thought on the matter that often get less attention than needed. We will also point you to some sources and facts that are not so popular with those that have been put in charge by our governments to fight this pandemic worldwide…
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Video: Modern Day Robin Hood
A group of friends from Sheffield, UK who call themselves “Modern Day Robin Hood” created quite some stir-up when they moved over to New York last week and handed out cash on the streets. While people did receive the stunt very positive and enjoyed the humor of the “mad English men” mainstream press was up in arms…
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Best News Picture Galleries on the Web
You can read your daily news online or via RSS but there is another way to get informed (and get your daily dose of news pictures). Major media agencies and news papers also provide daily or weekly updated news in pictures. Quite a few of them have even added spoken comments to the pictures so you get some background information together with the images. And often you get multiple images for a news story where otherwise only one of these pictures is included with a longer text. The services we included in the list below are the largest providers and often the source for other news and media sites. They cover news on a global level but some have also regional information. We have broken the list down into the following four sections (Daily picture sources, Weekly picture sources, Yearly picture awards and reviews, Historic and all time famous pictures)…
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