Celebrities Unite at Exclusive Cannes Gala to Support AIDS Research After Trump Cuts

Actresses, actors, directors and models showcased their best looks at a traditional event organized to raise funds for the fight against AIDS

Adrien Brody, more actors unite at Cannes gala to support AIDS research after Trump cuts

Adrien Brody and other Hollywood actors spoke out about AIDS research after Trump cut funding.

Celebrities unite at exclusive Cannes gala to support Aids research after Trump cuts

The charity said the benefit has so far raised nearly US$300 million for its research programs on Aids. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Celebrities unite at exclusive Cannes gala to support AIDS research after Trump cuts

By Miranda Murray and Rollo Ross

After years of absence in Cannes, several films, some in competition, address in this edition the first years of AIDS, when fear and repudiation predominated. Both in Alpha, of the French Julia Ducournau, in race to take in the Palm de Oro, and in The mysterious gaze of flamenco, of the Chilean Diego Céspedes, in the section One Certain Look, a new virus is causing havoc, especially between drug addicts and the LGBT community. It may also intere…

In the United States, about 62 percent of bee colonies collapsed between June last year and February this year, according to the Atlantic magazine, citing research by the nonprofit organization Project Apis m. The US Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with beekeepers, launched research into the causes of this last year, but it was interrupted by the austerity measures of the Donald Trump administration.