NetAid and Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunication industry’s AIDS action organization, today announced the winners of its “What’s Your Angle: Teens Take on AIDS” contest.  Kicked off on World AIDS Day, the contest launched as an innovative vehicle to educate teens about the pandemic and challenge them to explore local and global ways to combat the disease. NetAid is an initiative of the global humanitarian agency Mercy Corps that educates and empowers young people to fight global poverty.

Students from public high schools around New York City were challenged by to create a compelling HIV/AIDS-related public service announcement (PSA).  The winners are:  Teandra Vincent (age 16) and Jamellah Rimawi (age 17) of The High School of Law Enforcement and Public Safety; Jaclyn Soto (age 17) from Bayside High School and Shakiesha O’Neal (age 17) of Thomas Edison High School. The winning team’s members all belong to the Child Center of New York Teen Impact Prevention Program in Jamaica, Queens.  Their PSA titled “Why?” urges its viewers to question why HIV/AIDS has had such a devastating impact on young people in the US as well as worldwide, it begins by asking, “Why are nearly 6000 youth world wide infected with HIV everyday?”

The team wins expert guidance on the techniques of shooting, directing, and film production to transform their video into a professional PSA.  The “Why?” PSA is now being produced professionally in partnership with Kismet Films, and will be available on both the Cable Positive and NetAid web sites.  The students will also receive a state-of-the-art video camera that will be presented at the NetAid Global Action Awards event on July 26, 2007.

To request a copy of this PSA, please call or e-mail Lauren Horowitz at 212.459.1504 or lauren@cablepositive.org.