Together for HIV and AIDS prevention

Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
A special thank to Andrew Doupe, HIV/AIDS specialist, the writer of this toolkit, who managed to
adapt its content to suit the sport community needs and make it as global as possible.
Our thanks also go to Andrew Mutwanda, journalist and specialist on HIV/AIDS issues, Dr Shuaib
Ismail Manjra, director of the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport, Calle Almedal, senior
adviser on partnership developments at UNAIDS, and Dr Patrick Schamasch, Director of the IOC
Medical Department, who all contributed to the preparation of this work with many ideas, material
and reviewed its content.
Thanks to the numerous National Olympic Committees of the five continents who shared with us
their experience about HIV/AIDS prevention programmes and activities, and to the role model
athletes who lent their names to this project: Kipchoge Keino, Sergey Bubka, Nawal El Moutawakel,
Frank Fredericks, Yaping Deng and Matthew Pinsent, and all others too numerous to mention. They
will no doubt inspire many more sportspeople to get involved in this fight.
T.A. Ganda SITHOLE
Director, Department of International Cooperation and Development
Katia MASCAGNI
Head of International Organizations’ Relations & Cooperation, and
coordinator of this project
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