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All Africa Conference of Churches
www.aacc-ceta.org
General Secretariat:
Waiyaki Way, P.O. Box 14205 , 00800
Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya

Tel: 254 - 20 - 4441483, 4441338/9 · Fax: 254 - 20- 4443241, 4445835
Email: secretariat@aacc-ceta.org

Our Ref:

18 January 2005

PRESS RELEASE

Actress and Activist Ashley Judd will be visiting the Anglophone African
Church consultation on HIV/AIDS sponsored by the AACC and Population
Services International (PSI) on 19 January at 6:30 pm.

A Member of the PSI Board of Directors, Judd became the YouthAIDS Global
Ambassador in January 2002, and has long advocated that educating young
people is key to stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS.  In 2004, Judd traveled
to Asia where she visited clinics, schools, churches, temples, and mosques
and youth projects, and participated in the 2004 International AIDS
Conference in Bangkok.	In January 2005, Judd is visiting a variety of PSI
and YouthAIDS programmes in Kenya, Madagascar, and South Africa.

Judd is a well-established actor who has appeared in such films as Double
Jeopardy, Kiss the Girls, Frida, Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood,
Where the Heart Is, A Time to Kill, Heat, Ruby in Paradise and most
recently Twisted and De-Lovely. She has worked with such actors as Morgan
Freeman, Robert DeNiro, Selma Hayek, Harvey Kietel, Sandra Bullock, Andy
Garcia and Kevin Kline. Judd was recently nominated for the Golden Globe
award for her role in the film De-Lovely.

YouthAIDS is a growing global initiative that generates funding and
awareness to help fight the spread of the disease among the world s youth.
YouthAIDS programs are designed to educate young people and protect them
from a life of HIV/AIDS. Through mass media, theatre, music, fashion and
sport, YouthAIDS promotes abstinence, decreased sexual activity and safer
sex among 15 24 year-olds, the generation most likely to be infected.

Population Services International (PSI) is the organization behind the
YouthAIDS initiative. PSI, a non-profit organization based in Washington,
is the largest social marketing organization in the world with health
programs in 70 countries. The PSI network delivers health products,
services and information to prevent HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted
infections and malaria, and promote family planning and maternal and child
health among low income and high risk populations.

The All Africa Conference of Churches is an ecumenical fellowship
representing more than 120 million Christians in all the 39 countries in
Africa, active in programmes promoting ecumenical relationships, ethical
governance, and health and wholeness across the African continent.

The Consultation is being held at the newly renovated guesthouse on the
grounds of the AACC compound in Westlands, Nairobi.  If you have any
questions, please contact Lucy Ogot or Brandon Gilvin at the AACC
Communications desk.