HAIRDRESSERS – AIDS

BY KEITH NUTHALL"SOMETHING for the weekend, sir?" That euphemistically diplomatic query from the barbers of yore to male customers staring at a box of Durex is to become much more than a smutty cliché. Indeed, UN cultural organisation UNESCO and French hair-care giant L'Oréal have launched an alliance, which could make this phrase - and others like it - save millions of lives. L'Oréal has offered to use its 115 technical training centres in more than 50 countries to not only teach hairdressers about blow-waves, perms and box cuts, but also about preventing ...


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