In the video below, which was actually created last November, Lennox explains that she first saw someone wearing a bold ‘HIV POSITIVE’ t-shirt in South Africa in 2004, and she thought it was such a ‘clever, brilliant’ idea, she decided to run with it herself. ‘In a country like South Africa, where HIV is so prevalent, and yet you have stigma where people are afraid to openly come out and say that they’re HIV positive,’ she says, ‘this t-shirt, whoever wears it, is making a statement of solidarity, and they’re saying, ‘We’re coming out from behind the shadows. We’re trying to normalize what is a preventable thing. It doesn’t need to have the stigma.’’
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/04/22/annie-lennox-hiv-positive/
