Life Ball Crystal of Hope
The annual award of the Crystal of Hope during the Ball’s opening ceremony has become a fixed item on the program. The EUR 100,000 decoration has been presented by a celebrity or head of an AIDS organization to honor achievements in the field of HIV/AIDS research since 2005.
The Red Ribbon-shaped award is a tribute to extraordinary commitments in the fight against AIDS or outstanding AIDS projects of international partner organizations of AIDS Life.
- 2005: Treat Asia Project by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) – presented by Minnelli
- 2006: SAMBA project by Médecins Sans Frontières – presented by Catherine Deneuve
- 2007: Youth2Youth Project Uganda by the German Foundation for World Population – presented by Vivienne Westwood
- 2008: Yier Nigma (choose life), a Kenyan project for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV by international humanitarian organization CARE – presented by Kim Cattrall
- 2009: Trevor Peter, for his year-long efforts for the Clinton Foundation’s Access Programs, within which he cooperated with governments in Africa and the Caribbean to introduce HIV tests for diagnosing the population and for checking the effectiveness of medication – presented by Fran Drescher and Bill Clinton
- 2010: The Ukrainian NGO The Way Home (http://www.wayhome.org.ua/) and its founder Sergey Kostin, for helping street children, many of which are HIV positive, in Odessa, Ukraine. The award was presented by Nastassja Kinski.
- 2011: The Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice (http://rylkov-fond.org/) and its co-founder Anya Sarang for advocating for the protection of human rights of drug users and other vulnerable populations in the Russian Federation. The award was presented by Brooke Shields.
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