In honor of World AIDS Day on December 1st, fresh television commercials will be released. These innovative commercials which desire to advertise safe sex will not be using the grooviest celebrity nor will they be boasting any of our current all-powerful politicians advocating the world to be safe and smart about sex. Instead, these latest commercials will feature none other than Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.
So what is the connection is between safe sex and murderous authoritarians. Well, the campaign's tagline of AIDS as a mass murder might put it all into perspective for you. The implicit topic of the fight is that these three authoritarians have been accountable for the deaths of around the comparable figure of citizenry that have yielded to AIDS. These pictures of the authoritarians are, therefore, used to express that AIDS is also a killer of the masses in order to frighten people into employing condoms correctly and consistently.
Of Course, a movement of this nature is not without its critics. In fact, there have been several AIDS/HIV charities and foundations that have already come forward to express that they do not endorse this cause. One spokeswoman for the National AIDS Trust states, "Of course there are many HIV organizations that run their own campaigns, however, I would think that (advertisement) is incredibly stigmatizing to people living with HIV who already face much stigma and discrimination due to ignorance about the virus. On top of this, it fails to provide any kind of actual prevention message. For example, use a
condom, and may deter people to come forward for testing."
In the last few years, there has been a fundamental reduction in terms of the populace's involvement in AIDS and HIV issues. Nonetheless, the count of citizenry who are knuckling under to this disease each and every day has not slowed. As A Matter Of Fact, over 28 million citizenry across the earth have succumbed to AIDS, making this virus an unequalled mass murderer. The effort was formulated and advanced to ensure that individuals around the world do not blank out that AIDS is still very much a slayer that can target anybody. Because of this, the cause wanted to apply shock value in order to get AIDS and HIV topics to the forefront of world news and people's minds.
Financing for the commercial was rendered by the German das Comitee on behalf of an AIDS Awareness committee within Germany. Photographs were shot by Uwe D ttmann. The film footage was directed by Ivo Weigert and produced by Doppelg nger-Film. All those who participated in creating this commercial crusade volunteered to do so in order to aid make it available for World AIDS Day 2009.