Bibi Rusell, former international fashion model and now world renowned Bengali designer started her own version of (PRODUCT)RED with HIV-infected women in Cambodia.
Russell joined the women of MDSF, an initiative started in 2006 by the UN Development Program that now employs 17 women living with HIV in a Phnom Penh factory reports the Phnom Penh Post.
“If you join hands with women living with HIV with affection and confidence, they can create magic with their fingers. Fashion is very important, and it makes you understand the culture of a country,” …

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The Times reports on the latest media coup from Bono’s PRODUCT(RED): a digital music service to help Africa pay for antiretroviral medicines.
“The still-unnamed service, which is scheduled to start in September, will deliver customers three new pieces of exclusive content a week for a monthly fee of $5. Half of that money will go through (RED) to the Global Fund, and the other half will go to the artists who contribute songs and to their record companies.”
U2, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello and Elton John are amongst some of the …

Thanks to Elizabeth at The Wisdom of Whores for bringing this one to my attention. It reminded me of a night out in Bangkok. Seating at the Balcony Bar, one of my favourite hang out in Silom Soi 4 (The staff is funnier than at the more Hi-So Telephone), I watched a tall and handsome foreigner in his late thirties seating at the table next to mine chatting with a “Boy”. It was at the time when the latest frenzy was to Make Powerty History and the “Farang” (foreigner) was …