With more and more people getting AIDS and increasing HIV+ cases, it is important to make people aware about the risks posed by AIDS and also to help people with AIDS. A lot of organizations around the world are working to develop AIDS awareness and also helping AIDS victims.

Action for Aids (AfA) is also doing a lot of work in this filed. Its efforts were recognized and received a big boost as the organization was awarded a US$85,000 ($120,000) prize by the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

The organization received the prize named Dr. Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health. The reward is a tribute to the efforts of WHO's ex-director-general who died in 2006 and was a prominent HIV and Aids advocate.

AfA was given the award after being nominated by the Ministry of Health (MOH) - the first time MOH has made such a nomination.

The organization has made an important contribution in HIV/Aids education, care and advocacy in Singapore. It is also working together with various Government agencies for AIDS prevention programs.

The prize will further help the organization to develop various educational, care and support programs, stressed its President Roy Chan. It will also try to adopt new techniques for raising AIDS awareness.

It helps people with AIDS and most of the medicines are very costly and it is not easy to help these patients as it faces a lot of pressures.