UNAIDS mourns the death of prominent AIDS activist Wellington Solomon Adderly

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UNAIDS mourns the death of prominent AIDS activist

Wellington Adderly

Geneva, 28 May 2008 - It is with profound sadness that

UNAIDS mourns the death of AIDS

activist

Wellington Adderly who was killed at his home in Nassau, Bahamas

earlier

this

week. Mr Adderly was one of the leading figures in the response to HIV in the Bahamas

having

served for many years as President of the Bahamas National Network of Positive

Living.

He was also a prominent member of the Bahamas Resource Committee and

Administrator

of the Bahamas

AIDS Foundation.

“Wellington

Adderly’s untimely death is not only a loss to the AIDS movement

in

the

Bahamas and the Caribbean, but the world as a whole,” said Miriam

Maluwa, UNAIDS

Country

Coordinator for Jamaica, the

Bahamas and Belize.

“He was a great advocate for

people

living with and affected by HIV and made a huge contribution in the delivery of

HIV

prevention

programmes and support services in the Bahamas

and the Caribbean.”

Mr

Adderly was well known as one of the first people to openly declare his HIV

status in the

Bahamas, which played an important role in

helping to reduce the widespread stigma and

discrimination

against people living with HIV in the region.

“Wellington cared about people, he put a human face to HIV

in the Bahamas

and went out of

his

way to advance the cause,” said Mrs Mae Bain, Director of The

Bahamas National

AIDS

Centre. “His courage and determination were outstanding and his

commitment

exemplary.

He will be sorely missed.”

UNAIDS

expresses its sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

Contact

Sophie

Barton-Knott | UNAIDS Geneva | +41 22 791 1697 | bartonknottsunaids (DOT) org

Kate Thomson - Chief, Civil

Society Partnerships Unit - UNAIDS - 20 avenue Appia - 1211 Geneva

27 - Switzerland

- E-mail: thomsonkunaids (DOT) org - Tel: +41 22 791 4621

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