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Buy Lip Butter and Help Prevent AIDS

March 31, 2009

MTV and the Body Shop have joined forces to raise funds to fight HIV/AIDS and encourage youths to practice safer sex. A newly launched Web site asks visitors to pledge to follow safer-sex guidelines. And the Body Shop is donating approximately $5 from every $8 purchase of Tantalizing Lip Butter to the Staying Alive Foundation, a global outreach that encourages young people to protect themselves and their communities from HIV. For more information, visit www.yestosafesex.com.

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Adapted from:
Dayton Daily News
03.25.2009; Meredith Moss

This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.

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