Posh clothes combat HIV

07 August 2014 - 02:01 By Reuters
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Singer-turned-designer Victoria Beckham.
Singer-turned-designer Victoria Beckham.
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Fashion designer and former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham is giving away 600 pieces of clothing 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 the charity mothers2mothers (m2m), that works to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies in nine countries including South Africa, Swaziland and Kenya.

Mitch Besser, m2m founder, said money raised would be "transformational".

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