According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.
Around 95% of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.
Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation report, women now account for nearly 30% of new HIV infections, a number that has tripled since 1986.
Positive Voices: Women and HIV, Cable Positive’s third installment in their award winning Positive Voices documentary series, deals with this startling fact.
Produced in association with Kismet Films, Positive Voices: Women and HIV is a 46 minute documentary that explores the lives of six women who have been affected by HIV and AIDS. The piece is hosted by actress and activist, Gloria Reuben and includes interviews with women living with HIV, members of the media who cover the epidemic, AIDS advocates and service providers.
The documentary premiered at HBO’s screening room in New York City on June 27, 2007, in commemoration of National HIV Testing Day.
San Diego, CA celebrates its first annual Nat. Latino AIDS Awareness Day. Bienestar; the organization sought out the Hispanic Community and educated them about the AIDS virus
there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.
The leaders of governments across the globe have pledged to strengthen efforts to combat and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS on the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day Monday.
U.S. President George Bush says his administration has already met its goal of treating two million people living with HIV/AIDS by the end of the year.
Mr. Bush told reporters outside the White House Monday that his administration's emergency plan for AIDS relief has helped more than 10 million people around the world. He said that number includes life-saving treatment for more than 237,000 babies.
President-elect Barack Obama says his government will continue the "critical" work of addressing the AIDS crisis when he takes office in January.
December is World AIDS Month and citizens everywhere are being made conscious of this current epidemic. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is the disease that most people think only affects homosexual men. In truth, this disease also affects heterosexuals as well as all races and both genders.
This caught me by susprise.. guess I wasn't thinking that even distant locations like Mongolia are affected by AIDS.
In this video featured at the Peace Corps World AIDS Day Film Festival in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 2009, Education Volunteer Alison Boland shares how Peace Corps Volunteers in Mongolia combine HIV/AIDS work with sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention education in order to prevent the rising threat of an HIV/AIDS outbreak and to increase the overall awareness of sexual health among Mongolias youth.
December 1st, 2010 is World AIDS Day.. just wanted to push this up.
I think we tend to push things like this to the back of our mindsbecause we may have more immediate needs or pressing matters, but important to remind ourselves that there are those that need our help.
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December is World Aids Month
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
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