{"id":14824,"date":"2011-11-09T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14824"},"modified":"2011-11-11T10:26:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:26:49","slug":"ports-international-supports-the-bahamas-aids-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/ports-international-supports-the-bahamas-aids-foundation","title":{"rendered":"Ports International Supports The Bahamas AIDS Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14825\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14825 \" title=\"aidsball\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/aidsball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/aidsball.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/aidsball-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/aidsball-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured left to right: DeAndrea Lewis, Red Ribbon Ball co-chair; Michele Rassin, Ports International, and Sandra Smith, Red Ribbon Ball co-chair.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Local medical supplier Ports International Limited recently made a donation towards the AIDS Foundation&#8217;s 18th Annual Red Ribbon Ball. \u00a0\u00a0Organized by Colina Insurance Limited, The Bahamas AIDS Foundation is inviting persons to be as a part of the 18th Annual Red Ribbon Ball, on Saturday, November 12, 2011 in the Imperial Ballroom of the Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island.<\/p>\n<p>Under the theme &#8220;Removing the Mask&#8221;, this year&#8217;s Ball is a masquerade (or, rather, un-masquerade) event to highlight the importance of emanating the continued stigma attached to HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>The Ball Committee is asking for support and assistance to continue to take the lead in fighting HIV\/AIDS. \u00a0The Red Ribbon Ball has netted more than $800,000 for the Foundation since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to numerous education and treatment initiatives, the funds which have been raised by the Ball have enabled the Foundation to purchase a house in the southern area of Nassau to be operated as a resource center for adolescents living with HIV\/AIDS. \u00a0For more information or for tickets to the Red Ribbon Ball, call (242) 396-2122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local medical supplier Ports International Limited recently made a donation towards the AIDS Foundation&#8217;s 18th Annual Red Ribbon Ball.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[61,105,19,130],"class_list":["post-14824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-charity","tag-events-2","tag-health","tag-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}