The Stigma song Announcement

[yoqva]

I am happy to announce today on the Stigma song that is ready and you are invited to listen to hiv.

As HIV positive for 4.5 years that know on my self what is stigma i wrote this song in hebrew, it was translated to english and the singer Sigalit Burshtein made the song aftr the music was written by good freind: Maya Vapniyarsky and Shahar Kaufman.

I hope that the song will be hear all over the world

I hope that from my country Israel, Jerusalem we will give the hope to all the people that live with HIV AIDS.

This song is copyrighted to me and every one can download it from the page that i give you link to personal hear.

For Public use you must write to me and donate a little to the israelpositive site.

So

Here it come - press here - go to the page in my site and download ths song and after words tell me what you feel

http://www.israelpositive.com/TheStigmaAidsSong.htm

Jony jerusalem

[Giray]

:D
Excellent song. Excellent production. Powerful words. Let me think here for a minute... ;)

[yoqva]

can you inform therm and give them the link to the page of the song - it is interesting me what they think and all what people think

[Giray]

Hey Edwin, what do you think? Lead story on the WAC site homepage for a couple of days ;)
Hey Jony, I think we can give it some exposure :rolleyes:

[Giray]

I'll also get someone UNAIDS to listen to it and see if they can't write up a little story, or something.

[yoqva]

I will be happy to any thing you can do

[yoqva]

any news from some one ?

[Giray]

Hey Jony, it's still the weekend in Europe ;)

[yoqva]

we are now trying to bring the singer to tv program in israel

[Giray]

Excellent. That would give the WAC and eventually UNAIDS something to write about!

[yoqva]

we are going to give every radio station a disk with the song.

the tv program asked us to bring them details on the song and all the people that after it - i hope they will invite her to sing there and if not we will go to another tv program

we are here in my site working on 2 things:

1. the stigma song
2. help hiv people to find work and start work - we try to ask employers to take hiv people to work in their places
3, we have a contest with prize on "crash thw stigma"
4. i hope we will make a video clip too
5. i will send the song this week to MTV
6. we are opening next week "online help" on hiv with jerusalem projet and connect 2 sites to 1 big site - they will come to my site

and more things will be

i do not rest for a minut

jony

[yoqva]

any news from some one ?
did you hear some one saying any thing about the song ?

[Giray]

Hi Jony. Still trying :). Sent out two direct emails and awaiting a response.

[Edwin]

Hi Jony,

Maybe you would like to write a small news article that the World AIDS Campaign can put on its new site. If you let me know what you would like to say, I'll help you edit this and place this for others to see.
Edwin

[yoqva]

I will write a little on me, a little on my site and more on the song

i will write it this in few hours - to wich email send it to you or to upload it here ?

your idea is very good

i am also sending a cd to the the head of un mr ANAN - i will send it threw the israely ambasador in UN

How do i send it ito the head of UNAIDS and WAC - i want to send them the real disk - can you give me adress ?

[Edwin]

Hi Joni

thanks for this - if you just post you text here on the forum it will be fine. To send a copy to the wac you can use the following address:

Edwin Nichols
World AIDS Campaign
Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 21
1012 RC Amsterdam
The Netherlands

For UNAIDS you can send a copy to my colleage

Cheryl Bauerle
UNAIDS
20 Avenue Appia
Geneva 27
CH-1211, Switzerland

Good luck
Edwin

[yoqva]

the disks will bo from here tommorw to you
and to th un ANAN

I will write here this evening

thanks

[yoqva]

My name is Jony, I am from Jerusalem Israel, and for the past four and a half years I have been HIV positive. When the disease was diagnosed I was in critical condition and there was no hope for me. I was hospitalized in very bad straits, but thanks to the devoted and tireless treatment by doctors and the support and love of my family, my health improved considerably.
When I was discharged from hospital I looked on the Internet, on sites in Hebrew, and I found out that people were dying of Aids. I panicked, shut down the computer and for a number of weeks did not go near it again. When I recovered from the shock I vowed that I would build the biggest site in the world, whose purpose would be to help people at the beginning of the road by providing them with as much information as possible.
About six months later I opened an Internet site called “Living with AIDS”, http://www.israelpositive.com which provides information in five languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English, Russian and Spanish. The information pages in Hebrew and English are read in enormous quantities and the site is accessed from everywhere in the world. To illustrate, I will tell you that during the past year the site was visited by 810,000 from 225 different countries throughout the world, with 50% of those viewing in foreign languages, the most prominent of which is Arabic.
During my work on the site and as part of my battle with the Aids virus, I elected to write songs, thus expressing my feelings in a way that is different from the writing that I use all year long. I have written six songs in Hebrew, and one, the one that touched me most, and in my opinion will touch most of the people in Israel and in the world, I decided to translate into English.
The name of the song is: “The Stigma Song”. You can read here the words of the song

The Stigma Song

No one is to blame because I’m just the same
As the people you meet when you walk down the street
We all have a purpose, a life to fulfill
Though some may be healthy and some may be ill

The trouble that hides in me couldn’t be worse
The illness inside me is more like a curse
For I have a virus and AIDS is its name
But don’t turn away from me, I’m not to blame

There are viruses, illnesses, cancers, disease
That can wrestle the strongest of men to his knees
But of all the diseases that cut short one’s life
Only AIDS has a stigma that cuts like a knife

No, don’t turn away from him, don’t try to hide
From the person who suffers this sickness inside
No, don’t turn away for the sake of a name
For you know, deep inside, we are all just the same

And always remember that though this is true
It doesn’t make me less a person than you
So try to be loving and don’t criticise
Though the stigma may burn in society’s eyes

Yes, the virus may be in the blood in my veins
But I’m just like you, we’re all just the same
I’m still the same person I was yesterday
So next time you see me, please don’t turn away

Remember there’s no one this virus ignores
Though you’ve locked up your houses and bolted the doors
Remember the powerful key that you hold
That opens the heart and brings hope to the soul

No, don’t turn away, be a friend, understand
No matter what happens a man’s still a man
And I call from the heart that beats deep in my breast
Be loving and patient and look for the best

and you can listen to it while download it from this link:
. http://www.israelpositive.com/TheStigmaAidsSong.htm
A few words about the song:
The Aids stigma is known as something that causes us, all HIV carriers around the world, to close ourselves up and to hide, and not to expose ourselves. The Aids stigma in fact causes us all to hide behind a mask, in contrast with all other people sick with other diseases. The Aids stigma puts the Aids carriers in a bad place, ostracizing them from society.
My song speaks of the fact that the Aids carrier is a person that equal among equals and not different among equals. The Aids carrier needs a hug and love and needs to be treated like all other people, and not as a stranger, as one thrown out into the street.
A number of people worked on the production of this song, people who volunteered for this mission, and you can see their names on the download page, which was entirely produced with volunteer work and with love.
My sister, who looks after me, a very good friend of hers who took on the song as her own personal project (the friend is a singer), she wrote lyrics to the song, took it to a recording studio, the singer who volunteered to sing it and connected to every single word in the song, and in fact each of the, in his/her own way, contributed al they could in order to pass on my message of wanting a hug and not ostracism.
The message calling for the shattering of the Aids stigma goes from here, Jerusalem, to the entire world. I would be grateful if you could dare to distribute this message and in this way, maybe through one song, which we shall ensure is heard in every corner of the globe, we shall finally manage to shatter the Aids stigma.
I will sign this letter with my nickname, Jony Jerusalem and I hope that some time I will sign in my real name
If some one wish the singer to sing anywhere in the world, she and I will be happy to be invited anywhere to sing the song and bring hope to the entire world
Thank you
Jony Jerusalem

[Giray]

Go for it Edwin ;)

[yoqva]

some one know where is EDWIN

[Giray]

I'm sure he'll reply soon. With World AIDS Day we're all incredibly busy so sometimes it takes a little longer to get around to all our tasks.

[yoqva]

I have sent this morning a pack with letter and a disk of the Stigma song to the United Nations to Mr. Anan via the Israely Ambasador.
I have asked the Israely Ambasador to give Mr. Anan the disk and tell him that we hope the smasing of the stigma will start from the heart of the world - Jerusalem

I hope he will give him the disk - i sent it in fast mail

And from here I call every one to give people the link to the page of the song that in my site so as many people in the world can listen to the song and see the light in the end of the tunnel

http://www.israelpositive.com/TheStigmaAidsSong.htm

[Edwin]

I'm here! Sorry its always a busy time here for us towards World AIDS Day.

I'll look at your item today and get this up on the web-site.

Thanks joni!

Edwin

[Giray]

have sent this morning a pack with letter and a disk of the Stigma song to the United Nations to Mr. Anan via the Israely Ambasador.
I have asked the Israely Ambasador to give Mr. Anan the disk and tell him that we hope the smasing of the stigma will start from the heart of the world - Jerusalem

Hey Jony, you're starting to become my hero. Excellent news and initiative.

[Edwin]

Joni

Well done on writing your experiences down for us to share with others. I've placed your story on the worldaidscampaign website (see link)
http://worldaidscampaign.info/index.php/wac/news/opinions/the_stigma_song_a_voice_of_reality

I decided not to amend your text - it comes from your heart and I didn't want to change that.

Take care

Edwin

[yoqva]

Thanks alot - i hope it will open few hearts.

More things i did today: I sent disk to mtv Europe in london in fast mail to the manger of MTV europe because i know MTV ever aids day give alot of things and may be they will decide to do some thing with the song.
(do you kmow some one there ?)

And a disk is on the wa to the adress you gave me of Wac and Unaids

Later i will upload here the cover of the disk that was made by m sister.

[yoqva]

I have got an answer from one of the channels of tv that have program that invite people and singers (i do not remember how it is called in english) and they told me that they get alot of people that suggest them things to the programs and she said she is not shure it is so important to the community this song so - what she ment is that this song is not so important to people and there are many more things important

so - they will not invite us to non of the 2 programs of them

when i heard this it make me more closer to shut every thing down, stop doing any thing because in israel 2005 when a personal do some thing to the community they throw him away

i never felt so bad since i became hiv pos and think that this aids day will be my last aids day in israel - i will look from now to the world that apprichate work and not to the israely people that not

[Giray]

Hey, Jony. Sorry to hear about that. If it's any consolation, I go through this all the time with films about AIDS. On the one hand television stations claim they want to support AIDS and then when you give them a film about it they suddenly forget. But rather than making me give up, it gives me the energy to prove them wrong!!!!!! I would consider writing to a newspaper that is not affiliated with the station and telling them. They may publish an article about it. Grrrrr. :mad:

[yoqva]

But my eyes will be now to the world and not to the people of my country.

I belive in what i do - in the forum i administrate with a doctor and in my site people love me but you will not belive - the israely task aids organization that do not love my way of doing and not resting - help to destroy every thing

[yoqva]

This year is the most intersting year for me and for thngs that where done:
* 850,00 entrys to my site - more than 50% from the world - 225 countrys
* 7,850 files of hiv aids how to protect yourself from aids were download from my site - 3,835 in arabic, 850 in engllish and the other in hebrew
* 4,400 files of songs where download - 1,800 were the song of stigma in english and hebrew
* 2,200 answerd to an aids quiz (personal test in hebrew)
* 1,050 filles on how do each aids in hebrew - DOC files
* 2,500 video files people saw

this is what can be count - the support that was given cannot be count !!

I am there 7 day a week - every day and not just in the site - i have a forum with a doctor to support people

Just to show you what can just 1 person make to the fight on aids

thanks

jony

[yoqva]

All big Israely radio stations 3 in number played the song and i talked a litte and it was gr8 and talked in 3 high schools today befor 200 students

[Giray]

All I can say is EXCELLENT!!!!!!!

[swathimol]

hi jony
great wishes to your works
WE ARE ALL JUST THE SAME
LOVE

[Edwin]

Congratulations..... your hard work is paying off.

Edwin
World AIDS Campaign

[ReduceStigma]

Jony, I love the words it's very powerful. Keep up the good work.

[yoqva]

Thanks alot, alot of work was done to bing this song and i hope that this song will help us the HIV people that have aids that we will have to fight just in the hiv and not with the people that around us

Please send the link to every one you know all over the world

By the way, 2 weeks - 700 downloads of the song

[swathimol]

hi mr Jony,
we are planning to play your song in our collage day function for a slide show about AIDS
i humbly request you for your kind permission for using the song.
programme will be on 20 th dec.
thanking you
Swathimol

[yoqva]

You have my remission to play it

good luck and tell me after what they said

[yoqva]

I have got a call from the israely ambasador of the united nation office and they told me they got the disk, the israely ambasador got it and wrote a letter and gave my letter with the disk with his letter to mr anan

wow

i did it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yoqva]

1. i start this week working on the clip of the english song

2. the stigma song in hebrew will be recorded in the melody of the english song - in the next week


if any one have video clips 0f 20-30 seconds of hug of 2 peole and if they have red aids sign on them and - i need pictures of optimic pictures of aids and a stigma break pictures - if you have and can sen it to me to
jerai2001@yahoo.com - it will be helpfull to the clip

[swathimol]

thanx for your permission to play the song.
i will give you more informations about the response of the audiance aftr the pgme
thankyou

[yoqva]

if any one have video of people with aids red ribbon, as video or pictures, people that huge together and please send it to me - i am working alone on the video clip and need pic and small files of 20-30 sec each of video

any one that can send me files in mpeg, avi jpg or all other that work on adobe premiere will be good - i need any pictures worse and optimic to the clip

please - your help is our clip

if you have it can be sent to:
jerai2001@yahoo.com

jony