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Wurtzbach given Certificate of Appointment on May 3\/IMAGE UNAIDS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nOn May 3, 2017, Filipina beauty queen Pia Wurtzbach was launched as The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS) Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific. In a photo posted by the beauty queen herself, Wurtzbach signed the official letter with Director of UNAIDS Regional Support Team Asia & the Pacific Steve Kraus. The signing was done and held in Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) in Quezon City.<\/p>\n
In a statement by Wurtzbach, she expressed her gratitude in becoming an ambassador for the said cause. \u201cI am very happy to be a UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific. I am overwhelmed. It\u2019s been a dream of mine to work with the United Nations. I will do my best and I will use my voice for this cause.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wurtzbach, who was crowned Miss Universe in 2015, mentioned of her interest to help raise awareness on HIV\/AIDS during the final Q&A portion of the pageant. The UNAIDS, according to the United Nations, \u201cserves as the leading advocate for global action against HIV\/AIDS.\u201d Other notable ambassadors for UNAIDS include model\/fashion icon Victoria Beckham, English actress\/producer Naomi Watts, Iverian football player Gervinho, and American designer Kenneth Cole, among others.<\/p>\n Source: UNAIDS<\/a>, @piawurtzbach on Instagram<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach has recently been chosen as UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3194,2000,3193],"class_list":["post-16641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-ambassador","tag-pia-wurtzbach","tag-unaids"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/20170503_PiaWurtzbach_1-e1494572437475.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16720,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions\/16720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/05\/pia-unaids-e1494572289129.jpg\")
Pia Wurtzbach with Steve Kraus\/IMAGE Pia Wurtzbach on Instagram<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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