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Candlelight Materials
Candlelight Materials Coordinating a candlelight memorial for your community can involve a lot of different skills, from community mobilization to advocating AIDS messages. Below are selected resources from an assortment of organizations for you to refer to during and leading up to your memorial. Use them as a guide in your planning or for ideas to create activities during the event. If you would like to recommend a publication, please send us an electronic copy or a link (see “Contact Us”) and we will consider posting it on this site.

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Candlelight Logos and Forms
The following logos and forms are specific to the Candlelight Memorial program and are permitted for public use. Please consult the Global Network of People living with HIV before altering logos.

Candlelight Memorial logos: zip file
2011 Community Coordinator Registration: online form
Photography & Video Release form: PDF (271K) | Word (76K)
Sample Invitation to Local Leaders and Officials: PDF (35K)
Sample Invitation to Sponsor Letter: PDF (31K)
Sample Press Release: PDF (39K) | Sample Media Advisory: PDF (46K)
2011 Candlelight Memorial Poster
The theme for the 2011 Candlelight Memorial is "Touching Lives..." With this theme, the International Candlelight Memorial wishes people to remember how HIV has touched the lives of so many of us; and how international solidarity has a positive impact on the lives of people living with HIV and affected by HIV worldwide.

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2010 Candlelight Memorial Poster
The theme for the 2010 Candlelight Memorial is "Many Lights for Human Rights" which is meant to promote both global solidarity and the need for collective action around HIV and human rights. The poster image was taken by Mihaela Bacalu during a memorial in 2009 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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2009 Candlelight Memorial Poster
The theme for the 2009 Candlelight Memorial is "Together, We Are the Solution," which is meant to promote both global solidarity and resolution to the problem of AIDS, and that only when we work in partnership together can we see change. The poster image was taken during a memorial in 2008 by the Hanoi Buddhist Association in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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2008 Candlelight Memorial Poster
The 2008 poster features a memorial in New Delhi, India from 2007 and symbolizes our global solidarity as well as our geographic diversity. The theme for the 25th Anniversary Candlelight Memorial is “Never Give Up. Never Forget,” reflecting the crossroads in time this Memorial represents. It reminds us we must learn from the past and remember those lost, as well as never give up our collective fight against the disease.

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Candlelight Coordinator Manual
The Coordinator Manual was produced by the Global Health Council to guide coordinators in the planning, production, and evaluation of their community events for the Candlelight Memorial. The manual provides a general framework for arranging memorials and helpful ideas for mobilizing communities.

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