Cricket stars for Aids campaign

A campaign to highlight issues surrounding Aids is being backed by several leading cricketers from around the world.

THINK WISE is running a promotional project ahead of the beginning of the International Cricket Council Champions Trophy cricket tournament, which is being held in South Africa.

This initiative intends to raise awareness of HIV and also reduce the negative stigma of the disease.

Graeme Smith, captain of South Africa's cricket team, is a champion of the cause, along with Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka's captain.

Smith commented: "HIV is a worrying issue in South Africa but we all have the responsibility to make the right decisions and take the right steps forward.

Sangakkara added: "This is a disease - it doesn't make you a social outcast. People who live with HIV should not have to sit on the side and be a victim of ignorance."

Virenda Sehwag of India, Australia's Nathan Bracken and Isa Guha, a female cricketer from England, are also backing the THINK WISE campaign.

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