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As reported here earlier, Annie Lennox presented her SING Campaign this Thursday in Holyrood, Scotland. Coming back to the "Festival Of Politics" after her visit in 2009 (more), the event was named "Annie Lennox and the SING Campaign - One Year On". Annie Lennox joined a panel on Wednesday already at the Scottish parliament (watch it again here). First Annie explained in 40 minutes with the help of a number of films shot in Africa … more

As reported here earlier Annie Lennox spoke at the Festival Of Politics 2010 at the Scottish parliament in Holyrood yesterday in a one hour discussion with chairman Alasdair Morgan MSP, Deputy Presiding Officer, Martin Bell, recounting his successful campaign to become a 'sleaze-busting' MP, Mark Thomas, leading political campaigning comedia and Perrier Award nominee, and the audience. See some screenshots from the webcast above. … more

Founder of the SING campaign set for Edinburgh appearance Five things you didn’t know about HIV/AIDS in South Africa, by Annie Lennox, musician and founder of the SING campaign for HIV/AIDS women and children. 1. Becoming a UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador recently has strengthened and broadened my platform. Michel Sidibé, the director of UNAIDS, is a real visionary who has a very clear and innovative directive as to how he wants to lead the … more

Annie Lennox made it onto the front page of CNN.com. The news site present her fight against HIV / Aids with a video interview and and corresponding article:  Watch the video and read the full article here. … more

Annie Lennox talked to Andrew Jack of the Financial Times about her role as Goodwill ambassador for the UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, her history as an activist with Nelson Mandela, TAC, the SING Campaign and what role celebrity has in giving campaigns a voice: Click here to listen to and download the interview. … more

As reported here various times Annie Lennox opened in her role as an HIV/Aids activist and SING Campaign the 18th World AIDS Conference in Vienna last week. In an AFP interview she said that funding the fight against AIDS "should not be something charitable. [...] I'm not denigrating charity per se. But we need to have a paradigm shift in our heads. We need to say: this is about human rights." She hopes that the … more

Another interview with Annie Lennox from the 2010 International Aids conference in Vienna has been published by Al Jazeera today: Researchers in South Africa have found that a vaginal gel containing a prescription drug could dramatically cut the prevalence of HIV in woman. Results of a study in the country showed that the microbicide gel reduced the HIV infection rate by 39 per cent over two and a half years. Renowned singer Annie Lennox, … more

Annie Lennox gave AFP a short interview on Monday at the International Aids conference in Vienna about HIV/Aids and the human rights issue this epidemic is. Click here to watch the interview now … more

Annie Lennox spoke at the opening ceremony of the 28th International AIDS conference in Vienna yesterday. Click here to a few commented photos from Annie and click here to watch a video of yesterday's opening session (Annie's speech starts at 3:23:52 on the player). Tomorrow she is going to perform live in Vienna. Support the SING Campaign! … more

Annie Lennox shared a number of great photos on her Facebook and MySpace sites of her speaking and performing appearances in the past days at the TED Global 2010 conference in Oxford. She wore her HIV POSITIVE T-Shirt to raise awareness for the HIV/Aids situation in the world  and to promote her SING Campaign (read more here) and moved the audience with her and Eurythmics songs that they sang along and got very excited (ethrill.net reported). … more