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British fashion designer and former pop star Victoria Beckham is giving away 600 pieces of clothing, including several evening dresses, to raise money and awareness for mothers living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

Beckham's iconic, white Dolce and Gabbana dress worn for the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards is just one of the items to go under the hammer in aid of mothers2mothers (m2m), a charity that works to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies in nine countries including South Africa, Swaziland and Kenya.

Other pieces are from Beckham's days with the Spice Girls pop group Air Jordan 13 Retro For Sale , fashion shows, parties and red carpet appearances with husband and former England soccer captain David Beckham.

The money raised from the auction of Beckham's evening gowns, hats, shoes, bags, jewellery and costume pieces will be "transformational" for the organization that trains and employs mothers living with HIV to mentor other HIV-positive mothers in their community Air Jordan 1 Retro For Sale , m2m founder, Mitch Besser, said.

The women work alongside doctors and nurses in understaffed health centers as members of the healthcare team.

"We've reached 1.2 million mothers since we started, but with more resources, we can reach more mothers. With more reach we prevent more infections and we keep more mothers alive to take care of their kids," said Besser Air Jordan 11 Retro For Sale , an obstetrician and gynaecologist by training.

"The funding is absolutely transformational for an organization like ours," he told Thomson Reuters Foundation.

With an annual budget of around $20 million, m2m receives up to two thirds of its funding from the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) - a program to combat AIDS started by former U.S. President George W. Bush.

THE OUTNET.COM, the online fashion outlet which will host the private online sale from Aug. 20-25, said Beckham chose to donate proceeds to m2m after visiting South Africa in February and meeting some of the mothers affected by HIV.

"After spending just a few days with these remarkable women and learning more about the charity from Mitch, and his lovely wife Annie Lennox Air Jordan Retro For Sale , I wanted to do as much as I could," Beckham said in a statement.

"It really was a life-changing experience. I've never experienced anything like it."

Sub-Saharan Africa is still the region hardest hit by HIV, with 24.7 million HIV-positive people in 2013.

Women account for 58 percent of those living with HIV in the region, which is also home to 85 percent of pregnant women living with HIV, according to UNAIDS.

Nevertheless there have been great strides in reducing the number of children infected with HIV worldwide - from 580,000 in 2001 to 240 Jordan 4 Retro For Sale ,000 in 2013.

Yet stigma, under-funded and under-equipped healthcare systems and problems engaging men are some of the obstacles to ending the epidemic in Africa, Besser said.

(Agencies)

STOCKHOLM, July 17(Xinhua) -- International crime networks are responsible for half of home burglaries in Sweden, and according to a new report from Swedish police intelligence, they are building infrastructure in Sweden Jordan 13 Retro For Sale , Swedish public television broadcaster SVT reported Monday.

"We have been refining our tools to distinguish the patterns in these serial crimes. Now we are confident enough to write these reports and say that they are responsible for as many as half the reported home burglaries in Sweden," Stefan Pettersson who works for the intelligence unit focusing on international crime networks, told SVT.

He warned that the number of home burglaries will continue to grow if Sweden presents itself as a more accessible country.

The international crime networks come from eastern Europe, the Balkan and Baltic countries, and also South America, according to police. The networks have ample economic resources and a clear hierarchy in which one or several leaders control the networks from the home country Jordan 1 Retro For Sale , SVT reported.

According to Pettersson, who has followed the networks since the police started noting their activities 10 years ago, the profile of people working with these rings is becoming clearer. They are not drug addicts, he said.

"They are professional criminals. These are men between the ages of 20 and 45 who form tightknit groups and who have long criminal careers behind them," he said.

According to police, the crime networks are primarily interested in small valuables such as gold and watches that can be transported easily out of the country.

The offenders are recruited in their country of origin for stealing tours.

"When we monitored networks from Lithuania and Poland Jordan 11 Retro For Sale , for example, we could see that the people who are sent to Sweden get to work as soon as they arrive. In Sweden they live inexpensively, travel around in cheap cars and steal diesel. When the jobs are done, they are sent back to the home country with the loot. There, they are replaced with a new group of people. This is cost-efficient crime," said Pettersson.

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