The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) would like to invite you to take part in the presentation of the work of art created within the ''Red Tulips of Hope'' campaign. This campaign is part of the World AIDS Campaign theme ''Women, Girls

Thanks to the joint efforts of state institutions, local administration, international organisations, UN agencies, civil society and people living with HIV/AIDS, AIDS awareness activities have taken place in many Russian regions. All events were united by one element: the participants were invited to make an origami "red tulip" and asked to write his/her name, age and home town on the flower. Some of the red tulips were sent to Moscow where a work of art was created using these flowers. Famous Russian artist Natalia Sitnikova (winner of the ‘Triumph’ Award and a painter whose work is exhibited in the Tretiakov State Gallery and the Russian Museum) created the installation. The Campaign is supported by the Federal Service for Surveillance in Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare. The idea of making "red tulips of hope" was formulated by the Forum of Russian NGOs working within the field of HIV/AIDS.Among the places which took part in the campaign are Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Tver, Penza, Belgorod, Yekaterinburg, Barnaul, Pskov, Ufa, Tomsk, Nizhnevartovsk, St-Petersburg, Kaluga, Saratov, Moscow, Surgut, Voronezh, Sochi, Veliki Novgorod, Murmansk, Smolensk and the Republics of Buryatiya, Sakha-Yakutiya and Mari-El, among others.