A study in San Francisco reveals a troubling truth: 

As BP continues to struggle with all sorts of shady solutions to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, 

On June 25th Antwerp's vice mayor and alderman of Tourism Philip Heylen came to visit the DAA Education Center in Deurne with a delegation of international journalists who were in town for the IGLTA Convention and Antwerp Pride. 

With the World Championshio soccer in South Africa reaching fever pitch- not to mention breaking sound barriers- Addictlab came up with the second in our new series of contemporary HIV prevention campaign posters, featuring the by now world famous vuvuzela and the soon equally well known DAA condoms. 

This week DAA launched a brand new campaign in Antwerp, Belgium in collaboration with Antwerp Pride that will take place from June 24-27. 

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released shocking new data on the HIV epidemic in the United States stating that there's been an enormous increase in new HIV infections among gay men and Afro Americans. 

The ‘Vitrine’ art & fashion exhibition 2010 – spread all over Antwerp's city center- launches on June 5th and runs until June 26th. 

A Canadian math professor, Robert J. 

H&M launched a contest to find the band who will perform at the H&M Fashion Against AIDS NYC launch party on May 19,2010.
To enter the H&M Battle of the Bands contest, bands had to upload at least one video of them playing an original song.

People were able to vote for their favourite bands on this website. 

Another winner of our Talenthouse competition is Saima Altunkaya.
She is a German photographer who really likes the concept of DAA, one of the main reasons why she competed in the contest.

This is what she says herself: 

In Braunschweig (Germany) they know how to combine fashion with a cause: 

Nick Lovell is one of the 3 winners of our Talenthouse competition.

Nick is a Los Angeles based photographer who entered this competition with a clear vision: 

Rayner Seah is one of the 3 winners from our Talenthouse competition. 

Paris-based designer Jean Paul Gaultier- famous for his haute couture, refined womenswear for Hermes, his own well-established ready-to-wear label and parfums, will be feted June 3rd, 2010 in New York for his achievements in mens fashion and his fight against AIDS. 

We all expected this to happen: 

Yesterday our Education Center in Deurne, that will open its doors on the 25th of June, got robbed. 

Playboy Design has generously donated a full box of fabulous women's clothes to support IHAEC- are you next?

Designers against AIDS has opened a charity store with high end designer clothes and accessories on www.Designer-Vintage.com- and
another one for premium brand clothes and accessories on www.Fashion-Vintage.com - all proceeds of the sales of these two DAA Shops go to help fund our new International HIV/AIDS Awareness Education Center (IHAEC), that will open this summer in Antwerp. 

Today we have put the first exclusive pieces of our DAA/Hmong collection online for sale at fashion-vintage.com

The collection consists of shoulder bags, skirts and coin purses/make-up bags that are hand made in Belgium by an artist/seamstress who also works for wellknown fashion designers, using vintage Hmong fabrics (some over 50 years old) that we sourced in Thailand. 

We wish everybody a very happy and healthy 2010 and thank all of you for your continuous support.