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Grassroot Hoyas: Varsity Athletes Bring GRS to Inner-City DC Youth
Article by Frank Papalia, TheHoya.com
An inspiring story of how a past GRS intern in South Africa has united varsity athletes at Georgetown and leveraged the GRS model in an effort to stem the raging HIV epidemic in Washington D.C.
Varsity Athletes Serve as Role Models, Spread HIV Awareness
While teaching D.C. middle schoolers about the effects of [...]
11 for Health Pilot Launched
Source: www.fifa.com
It is a scorching summer’s day and FIFA Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jiri Dvorak, is lying on a field doing push-ups among some 150 excited seventh grade school kids. The compact field, with its bright green artificial turf, neatly painted sidelines and gleaming white goals, is pressed up against a school building and straddled [...]
Skillz Magazine Published Nation-Wide in South Africa
The first edition of Skillz Magazine was published nation-wide in South Africa on February 1st via the Sunday Times Newspaper. A production of Football for an HIV Free Generation (F4), Skillz uses the excitement around World Cup 2010™ to engage young South Africans in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Featuring the world’s and South [...]
Kaizer Chiefs’ captain Jimmy Tau joins the fight against AIDS
Source: Soccer Laduma
A number of South African sports stars, including Kaizer Chiefs captain Jimmy Tau, attended events in Port Elizabeth and Kimberly this weekend to acknowledge World Aids Day on December 1.
The sportsmen helped raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and motivated the people who gathered at the two events to get tested for HIV. They did [...]
2010 World Cup Provides Platform for Major HIV Prevention Initiative
Today, World AIDS Day 2008, marks the official launch of the Football for an HIV-free Generation (F4) Initiative. Driven by an alliance between GRS, UNAIDS, Coxswain Social Investment Plus, loveLife, and the African Broadcast Media Partnership Against HIV/AIDSThe initiative taps into excitement around the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup by using soccer as the entry [...]