George Michael issues a statement of support.

This is my tenth year as patron of Children With AIDS Charity (CWAC) and I am pleased to support their work, especially around this time of year as World AIDS Day (1st Dec) approaches. CWAC is one of the key players in the development and provision of services for children in the UK living with HIV and AIDS: they also offer the only hardship project specifically for children.

CWAC helps children in numerous ways: they provide grants for basic items such as school uniforms, winter clothes, a phone bill, or it might be a washing machine for a hard pressed mum with a newborn baby that makes all the difference.

They also provide day trips and summer breaks for kids as well as providing assistance towards the cost of much needed family holidays. On a more basic level they’ll help with transport when it comes to getting children and their families to hospital, or having medicines brought to those too ill to travel.

CWAC also promote awareness on sexual health issues as well as stigma, discrimination and self-respect within schools, communities and youth centres.

I hope that you will, like me, continue to support this important and very relevant charity in the continuing battle against the poverty, discrimination and misunderstanding that HIV/AIDS can still cause amongst young people.