The tribe may have spoken but eBay says the game is hardly over.
The San Jose, Calif.-based online auction site Friday is now auctioning off props and memorabilia from the "Survivor: Africa" show, which wrapped up Thursday.
Proceeds from the auctions are going to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation based in Santa Monica with offices in New York and Washington D.C.
The foundation was chosen because the show highlighted the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. Survivor Executive Producer Mark Burnett went so far as to join the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Board of Directors.
During the show, eventual third place winner Lex van den Berghe visited Wamba Catholic Hospital in Kenya for a first-hand look at the epidemic. The hospital treats victims of AIDS from all over Africa. Built by an elderly Italian doctor, the hospital is financed and supplied completely by donations. Lex and "Survivor" host Jeff Probst, delivered a supply of HIV test kits and doses of the drug nevirapine.
According to the foundation, "the test kits enable a pregnant mother to be tested for the virus, and if positive nevirapine is given in a single dose to the mother at the onset of labor and in a single dose to the baby in its first three days of life. The drug course reduces transmission of HIV to the newborn baby by almost 50 percent."
Items up for auction include all 16 contestant torches, the bar where "cow's blood" shots were served in an early reward challenge, "Out Wit, Out Play, Out Last" flags, the Tribal Council voting urn, autographed memorabilia, and of course the most important item of all ... the "Survivor: Africa" immunity idol.
The auction is expected to wrap up in early February.
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