Join Tiësto and Bono in (RED)’s Fight Against AIDS

If “hard working, handsome DJ and producer” was an entry in the dictionary, I would expect to find a picture of Tijs Michiel Verwest, better known as Tiësto. He has been a legitimate hit maker in the electronic music industry for nearly 20 years, from his “Forbidden Paradise” mixes in the 90’s and compilation albums like 2004’s Paradise of the Athletes to his successful studio albums In My Memory and Kaleidoscope. Some of his recent hits include “We Own the Night,” “Hell Yeah,” and the infamous track “Zero76” alongside Hardwell.
In addition to his reputation as a global DJ superstar, Tiësto is also known for channeling his passion for helping others through philanthropic work with various charitable organizations and his support for victims of the 2004 tsunami and as a worldwide ambassador for Dance4Life, which educates young people about preventing the spread of HIV.
Currently, he is actively involved with (RED), which fights AIDS in Africa. The organization, founded in 2006 by Bono and Bobby Shriver, has partnered with some of the world’s best known companies that contribute up to 50 percent of profits from (RED) branded products and services to the Global Fund, which invests in HIV/AIDS programs that focus on countries with a high prevalence of mother-to-child transmission.
Tiësto became involved with (RED) after he was hospitalized with chest pains. Doctors tested him for HIV as well as other possible ailments, He was eventually diagnosed with pericarditis, a common condition frequently found in HIV/AIDS patients. After his personal health battles he felt an obligation to become involved in the worldwide fight against HIV and AIDS, which I think is very honorable and noble.
On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2012, Tiesto teamed up with (RED) and some of the biggest dance artists for DANCE (RED)SAVE LIVES, which was streamed live from Melbourne’s Stereosonic Festival on JoinRED.com and Rolling Stone. The video below  explains the goal of DANCE (RED) SAVE LIVES.

When you go (RED), you change—and save—lives. Connie lost three children to HIV before treatment was available in her home country of Zambia. She is alive today because she was given access to lifesaving antiretroviral treatment. Watch Connie’s emotional story of how (RED) gave her hope and a future.

The DANCE (RED) SAVE LIVES ALBUM features an exclusive collaboration between Tiësto and Bono of U2’s “Pride.” The album, which celebrates big-bass and ground-shaking beats, is a bona fide summary of EDM’s circle of the greatest producers of 2012 that will make you want to drop it to the floor hardcore.

(RED), Tiesto, and the musicians featured on DANCE (RED) SAVE LIVES have taken a phenomenal amount of time and effort to help in the fight against AIDS. I can personally attest to their heartfelt gratitude for any help you can give in the fight against AIDS. Every day 900 babies are born with HIV and AIDS has taken more than 30 million lives globally over the last 30 years. The beginning of the end of AIDS starts with you and I. Together we can deliver an AIDS-free generation by 2015. Remember, all proceeds go directly to fight AIDS so donate today!

Choose one of the following ways to participate:

* Donate directly at DANCE (RED), SAVE LIVES Fundraiser

* Buy Tiesto’s DANCE (RED), SAVE LIVES on iTunes here.

* Visit (RED) and Buy (RED) merchandise

If you donate now, Tiesto will match your donation up to $100,000. Donate now to help safe a life today

* Become part of the (RED) cause and spread the word:

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Man Officially Cured of HIV

For the first time, a man has been declared officially cured of HIV. The remedy may nearly have killed him, but it opens a door—just a crack—to hope that we may someday kill off the scourge for good.

Strangely enough, the diagnosis that most concerned Timothy Ray Brown in 2007 was acute myeloid leukemia. HIV has been increasingly thought of as a manageable disease, though certainly a terribly burdensome one. What brought the 42-year old Brown under the care of Germany's Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin hospital was the more immediate threat his cancer posed.

The treatment Brown underwent was aggressive: chemotherapy that destroyed the majority of his immune cells. Total body irradiation. Finally, a risky stem-cell transplant that nearly a third of patients don't survive—but that appears to have completely cured Brown of HIV.

Doctors were savvy when they chose a stem cell donor for Brown. The man whose bone marrow they used has a particular genetic mutation, present in an incredibly small percentage of people, that makes him almost invulnerable to HIV. With Brown's own defenses decimated by treatments, the healthy, HIV-resistant donor cells repopulated his immune system. The initial indications that the virus had abated were promising. But only just now, having taken no antiretroviral drugs since the transplant, and following extensive testing shows no signs whatsoever of HIV, have his doctors given the official word:

He's cured.

What does this mean for the future of treatment? It's not as though every HIV patient can or would want to go through the tremendous suffering that was prelude to Brown's recovery, or be able to afford the procedure if they could or did. But for the first time, we know that HIV can be cured, not just managed. It opens new avenues of research—gene therapy, stem cell treatments—that may otherwise have been thought dead ends.