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December 1st: World AIDS day

November 30, 9:53 PM
by Doctor Lissa, Health Care Examiner
 
 
World AIDS Day was started on December 1,1988 with the purpose of raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education worldwide.  Twenty years after it began, World AIDS Day remains an important reminder that HIV has not gone away and that there are many things still to be done.

According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, of which 2.5 million are children. In 2007, 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.

What can you do to participate in World AIDS day? 

There are a number of things you can do to raise awareness, funds and fight ignorance such as:

  1. Play an AIDS game
  2. Raise money for AVERT
  3. Join the campaign
  4. Wear a red ribbon to signify your support to fight the disease

 

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