Burnett Attacks Apathy in AIDS Ads

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CHICAGO Leo Burnett urges Americans to combat the global AIDS epidemic in a new pro bono campaign for the Advertising Council and the United Nations Foundation.

A spot, being distributed to TV stations this week, presents stark images of janitors clearing out an empty school. As they put globes on a truck and toss chairs onto a garbage heap, a voiceover from actor Michael Douglas asserts that more than 6 million children have died from AIDS worldwide, more than the number of students in every pre-school, elementary school and high school in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C.,

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