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A seven-year-old South African girl has revived Annie Lennox’s solo HIV/Aids campaign. And the former Eurythmics star has told the Sunday Times that the death of her own baby, in 1988, started her on the road that has seen her become a champion of SA’s HIV-positive mothers.

The rock diva relaunched her campaign single, Sing — dedicated to supporting the Treatment Action Campaign — at a media event in London on Friday night.

The anthem, featuring Madonna, Dido and 21 other female stars, flopped in December because of a lack of record-label support, poor publicity and “the clutter of Christmas”, said Lennox.

But she said the “phenomenal” turnaround in the health of “Avelile” — an Eastern Cape girl living with HIV — had helped to revive both the song and the campaign, as well as a “lifelong commitment to South Africa”.

“I first met Avelile at a hospital near Mthatha in July last year. She had the body weight of a one- year-old baby — in really bad shape. She had come in 10 days earlier with pneumonia, having never received antiretroviral treatment,” Lennox said.

The music star visited the girl again in December last year at her father’s home near Germiston.

“And she was healthy,” she said. “She looked like a completely different girl. She’s now attending school and leading a normal life with her family. She’s the ultimate example of how treatment can give a child their life back, and a real inspiration to me personally.”

At a packed Frontline Club in West London Lennox outlined the “second phase” of the campaign, which included support from British Sport Relief and a commitment by The Body Shop chain in the UK to promote and sell the single at its 75 stores.

Although the song appears on her recent album, Songs of Mass Destruction, the new CDs feature remixes of Sing.

Born out of Lennox’s involvement in the 46664 concerts — which has seen Nelson Mandela appeal to South Africans to “sing out” about HIV/Aids — the anthem calls for women to “Sing, my sister … sing! Let your voice be heard/What won’t kill you will make you strong!”

Lennox, 53, said this week’s events marked the moment when “for the first time, I embark on my own campaign, to help ensure children in South Africa are born not just free, but free of HIV”.

She said the death of her son, Daniel, at birth in 1988, had “forever changed the way I saw life and its fragility”.

“The experience of having a stillborn son affected me profoundly,” said Lennox. “It did occur to me that there is a link to this absolute drive I have found to make a difference for mothers in South Africa.

“If something positive can come from that terrible time for me, that would be wonderful.”

The global human rights organization, Amnesty International says that HIV and AIDS are devastating poor women and children in South Africa.  In a report released in London, Amnesty says that poverty, gender inequality and unemployment remain major contributing factors. 

Pop Singer Annie Lennox is highlighting the issue with her new charity tune called “Sing.”  On a recent trip to Africa, she says she learned how the disease affects women — especially pregnant mothers and their unborn children — much more than it does men. VOA’s Mandy Clark reports.

source: VOA

Former EURYTHMICS singer ANNIE LENNOX doesn’t care people often mistake her for a lesbian because of her androgynous look.

The SWEET DREAMS hitmaker says, “I’m not gay. I’m heterosexual, but somehow or other people felt that I might be.

“That’s cool. I’ve always thought why should anybody have a problem with anybody’s sexuality. If you’re gay, you’re gay, so what?”

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EURYTHMICS star ANNIE LENNOX has declared women are harder working than men - insisting their “behind-the-scenes” efforts make society function. The Scottish singer’s comments came at the launch of Bryan Adams’ Brilliant Women photography exhibition at the U.K.’s National Portrait Gallery on Tuesday (11Mar08), where her picture was among the rocker’s collection of inspirational females. And the 53-year-old maintains it is such heroic women who deserve immense praise. She says, “Women still have to work harder than men. When you go to hospitals and care homes it is women doing the hard work, the drudgery. “Women do the housework - they work behind the scenes and have to do it all and also compete with men.”

EURYTHMICS singer ANNIE LENNOX has come up with the ideal method of reducing Britain’s yob culture - she wants to take young offenders to AIDS charity projects in South Africa. The 53-year-old is recommending the U.K’s young criminals visit disadvantaged counties in a bid to discourage them from a life of crime. She says, “It is heartbreaking when you see these children fending for themselves. “If youth offenders came out I think they couldn’t help but be affected by it all. Maybe it’d help them think twice about their privileges.”
14/03/2008 07:02