Each year, World AIDS Day (WAD) is celebrated on the 1st of December. In 2010, UNAIDS, civil society representatives, and the National AIDS Programme (NAP) are planning the World AIDS Campaign (WAC) in Egypt.

WAC 2010 theme for Egypt is “Universal Access to Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support” with a main focus on women, children and youth. The WAC 2010 is promoting a photography contest entitled “WAC is ART, Positive Faces in Egypt” under the national slogan “what will you do to help?”. This contest offers people living in Egypt an opportunity to promote hope, equality, and rights for all people through photography. The aim of the contest is show that HIV is a disease like any other which does not discriminate affecting the lives of children and women among others.

The overall goal is to challenge misconceptions and fight stigma and discrimination on HIV and AIDS and People affected and infected. The contest aim at presenting “positive faces” of woman, children and young people around the theme of HIV and AIDS and the need of compassion, support and unity.  All of these concepts are connected to the red ribbon, which has symbolized the fight against HIV and AIDS since 1991.

‘’The conspiracy of silence has been broken. 5 million people are alive because of treatment. Infection rates have dropped 17% globally since 2001. We have seen unprecedented and the full engagement of People living with HIV”

Opening session of the XVIII International AIDS Conference. Vienna, July 18th 2010

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sibide’

Terms and Conditions

The contest, “WAC is ART, Positive Faces” begins on October 1^st, 2010. We are looking for your own personal vision of how HIV/AIDS is perceived in Egypt through portraits of vulnerable groups such as women, children and youth at large. Challenges, achievements, misconceptions, and stories of the many ways in which people deal with HIV/AIDS-related issues can be identified by the red ribbon.

Information on how to enter the competition, as well as the resultant prizes forms part of these official rules. By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees to the Official Rules.

Who May Enter

The contest is open to all people over 18 years old living in Egypt.

Each entry consists of an entry form and up to three pictures embracing the theme of the contest. Complete the entry form with the required information and submit it along with your photographs. Make sure to follow the instructions outlined below:

1. The contest is articulated in 3 categories: (1) Women, (2) Children (3) Youth.
2. Each applicant is requested to submit three photos covering at least two of the categories
3. The submitted photos must be portraits
4. A portrait is an artistic representation of a person or a group of people in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography, a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.
5. Each portrait must include the red ribbon in the composition as the symbol of the fight against HIV/AIDS and the stigma associated to the disease.
6. Photographs must be hand-delivered or sent to the following address:

UNAIDS, 7 El Golf St.,

Maadi 11431,

Cairo, Egypt

*UPDATED : All entries must be submitted by Sunday, December 19^th not later than 4.00 pm

7. Entries won’t be returned to participants.

8. Photographs must be in digital format. Entrants are asked to provide (a) A printed copy of each photo (ideal size is 35×45 cm) with no frame (b) The original digital file of each submitted photo. Digital files must be delivered in a CD/DVD properly wrapped and protected in an envelope.

9. Both (1) color and (2) black and white photographs are accepted.

10. Images might be digitally enhanced (minor burning, dodging and/or color/contrast correction is acceptable) but not manipulated in their content.

11. Each photo digital file must bear the photographer’s name and the photo entry number (1-3). For example: Karim-basha.1.Jpeg.

12. Each DVD/CD has to contain the submitted photos caption in word doc. in a separate folder

13. Hard copies must have the category, photo title and entry number (1-3) written in the back.

14. Entries with the photographer’s name in the back of the printed pictures won’t be considered.

15. Photographs must have been taken in 2010 and must be original works. Pictures awarded or published in any other National or International Photography contest won’t be considered.

Legal Conditions

By entering this photo competition all participants agree with entry rules and the following legal conditions:

UNAIDS is allowed to publish all entries as selected award winners for The World AIDS Campaign promotion. All authors will be quoted.  Each photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the Contest entrant. By entering the Contest the entrant acknowledges and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work, that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right, title, claim, or interest in the photograph.

The photograph must not, in the sole and unfettered discretion of the Sponsor, contain obscene, provocative, defamatory or inappropriate content.

Licence

Participants retain ownership and all other rights for future use of their work.

Contest Prizes

CANON is the technical sponsor of the photo contest and it has made available 3 cameras for the selected winners. The awarding ceremony will take place on December 3 in occasion of the World AIDS Day commemoration event at the Gezira youth club.

Download Entry Form

Data Privacy

All entrants agree that their personal data, and especially their name and address, may be processed, share, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the contest and any other purposes outlined in these Official Rules. The data may also be used buy the sponsors of the event to verify the participant’s identity, address, and telephone number.