Runa Laila new SAARC mascot for AIDS

Celebrated Bangladeshi singer Runa Laila was made SAARC Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS.

Foreign ministry sources said she would discharge her duty as special envoy for HIV/AIDS.

She is the first Bangladeshi to be nominated as a SAARC Goodwill ambassador.
 
The Secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in a meeting in January selected Bangladesh’s Runa Lalia, India’s Ajay Devgan and Pakistan’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy as Goodwill ambassadors for HIV/AIDS.

India’s eminent actress and social activist Shabana Azmi was the first Goodwill Ambassador to raise awareness and generate support for the fight against HIV and AIDS.