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BBC Entertainment - An auction organised by U2 star Bono and artist Damien Hirst has raised $42.5m (£21.6m) towards the global fight against Aids. Hirst donated seven of his works to the art sale in New York, including a cabinet filled with drugs to treat HIV, which ...

BBC Africa - A Kenyan woman crouches in a tent by the only possession she retrieved when she fled her home last month - a brown-paper bag packed with HIV drugs. "I was told by gangs that I was going to be raped because I am Kikuyu. That's why I left my house and ...

Reuters UK - NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Contemporary art collectors opened their wallets on Thursday and shelled out $42.6 million at a Valentine's Day charity auction spearheaded by rocker Bono and British artist Damien Hirst to benefit the fight against AIDS ...

Los Angeles Times - URANGA, KENYA -- This western Kenya village was slowly dying five years ago. One in three people was HIV-positive, then a virtual death sentence. Coffin-makers couldn't work fast enough and the nearby hospital overflowed with HIV patients. No family ...

International Herald Tribune - NEW YORK : A celebrity-studded Valentine's Day charity auction of contemporary artworks — all inspired by the color red and the concept of love — raised more than $42.5 million (€29 million) to benefit HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa ...

Boston Globe - André Téchiné's "The Witnesses" gently presents the dawn of the AIDS epidemic in mid-1980s France. The tenderness is typical of Téchiné; even a sense of panic is intimate as opposed to widespread. This is the epidemic from love's point of view ...

Bloomberg - Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- U2 singer Bono, in orange-tinted glasses, kicked off the bidding last night in New York at the AIDS charity auction he backs by singing the Beatles' ``All You Need Is Love.'' In no time at all, a Damien Hirst pill cabinet ...