The Vienna Life Ball 2012 celebrates its 20th anniversary on 19 May this year under the motto “Fight the Flames of Ignorance”, and for the third year in a row, T-Mobile is the main sponsor of the event. The daughter company of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile Austria, is sponsoring the Vienna Life Ball – the largest […]
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A policewoman underwent examinations after a rioting drinker claimed he had AIDS after attacking her.The 48-year-old German scratched the officers arm as she tried to calm him down. The woman and colleagues were called by bus passengers frightened by the rampaging man wielding a shattered beer bottle in Salzburg on Wednesday evening.Doctors took blood samples […]
AIDS drug called back over musty smell
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US American company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has recalled HIV/AIDS drug Prezista in several European countries including Austria after customers reported a mouldy odour.American papers report today (Mon) that the pharmaceutical industry giant decided to call back the 400 milligram (mg) and 600 mg doses of the pill in Austria, Germany, Ireland and Great Britain.A […]
Brooke Shields at the ready for Life Ball
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Brooke Shields will attend this years Life Ball, it has emerged.Organisers of the HIVand AIDS awareness event said today (Tues) that the Hollywood star will come to Vienna for the bash at the City Hall on 21 May. Other notable guests of the 19th edition of the ball are former US President Bill Clinton […]
Life Ball scores with Becker
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Boris Becker will attend this years Life Ball, it was announced today (Thurs).Organisers of the HIV/AIDS awareness event set to take place at Vienna City Hall on 17 July said the German tennis legend and his wife Lilly will be among star guests.They added former US President Bill Clinton and “Sister Act” star […]
An activist dubbed The Porn Hunter has said he will hold a counter-demonstration against next months Life Ball.Austrian Martin Humer said today (Fri) his Christlich-Soziale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreich (CSA) movement will take to the streets in front of the Burgtheater in Vienna on 17 July to “peacefully” protest against the HIV/AIDS awareness event taking place on […]
Vienna red ribbon kiss action announced
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Thousands of kissing people will form a giant red ribbon at a the courtyard of Viennas Belvedere castle to make aware of the dangers of AIDS and HIV on 21 July.Agnes Husslein-Arco, director of the citys Belvedere gallery, said yesterday (Mon) the first 1,000 people getting signed up to take part in the “Kiss at […]
Pink ‘not invited’ to Life Ball
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Pop star Pink will not attend the this year’s Life Ball, organisers of the Vienna AIDS charity event said today (Mon), dismissing claims made by newspaper Österreich.Gery Keszler, head organiser of the 17 July bash, said: “It pains me that four months before the Life Ball society reporting is reducing the importance of our most […]
‘AIDS 2010’ will have EE focus
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Organisers of the International AIDS Conference to be held in Vienna later this year said the events focus would be on marginalised groups with the disease like drug addicts in Eastern Europe (EE).Michel Sidibe, head of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, said yesterday (Weds) that the conference would be held “for people […]