For Immediate Release
November 10, 1998

Concerned group raises public awareness
about important health issue

LIBERIA—Distribution of a series of articles that discusses AIDS and the steps available to fight the disease is planned for Liberia in the months of November and December. In the November 8, 1998, issue of the international newsmagazine Awake!, scientific evidence is presented of four primary ways in which one can be affected by the virus and four ways in which AIDS cannot be transmitted.

As noted by the AIDS Action League, in most cases, the disease is preventable. Until a cure is found, however, education is the best defense against AIDS. Jehovah's Witnesses in some 230 lands across the globe will hope to educate the public by means of the Awake! articles. A simple and clear discussion of the treatment options that are available, as well as an example of the importance of support from family and friends for those who have contracted AIDS, is included in the magazine.

The international newsmagazine is published in 81 languages, with a distribution of close to 20 million copies.

Magazines will be available in Afrikaans, Arabic, Cebuano, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Iloko, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Ukrainian, Yoruba, and Zulu.

Call for possible copies in Albanian, Amharic, Chichewa, Cibemba, Ewe, Georgian, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Igbo, Kannada, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Marathi, Myanmar, Nepali, New Guinea, Pidgin, Papiamento, Sepedi, Sesotho, Shona, Sinhalese, Tahitian, Telugu, Thai, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Twi, and Xhosa.

Media contact: (718) 560-5600