€40,000 raised to fight AIDS

OVER €40,000 raised at a UNICEF Ireland charity lunch in Dublin yesterday will be used to fight the scourge of HIV/AIDS being passed on to the next generation in Africa.

€40,000 raised to fight AIDS

“Every day nearly 2,000 children are born with HIV, because their mothers don’t get access to anti-retroviral drugs that prevent the transmission of the disease,” said UNICEF spokesperson Julieanne Savage.

“The reason we can raise so much money in one go is because the Conrad Hotel sponsors the event in its entirety,” she said.

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