20th Anniversary of World AIDS Day
In the United States, an estimated 1 million people are living with HIV; of these, approximately 25 percent are unaware of their HIV infection and are at increased risk for infecting others.
The focus on this 20th anniversary is how the response to AIDS has greatly changed. Many of these changes may be positive, but this anniversary provides an opportunity to highlight how much more still needs to be done.
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World AIDS Day 2008 :: Out of the Shadows
We have 6,000 reasons to care, 6,000 reasons to act every day.
AIDS Statistics
Instead UNAIDS/WHO plan to publish an AIDS Epidemic Update in 2009 that will report on 2008 estimates, incorporating the 2008 program coverage data.
The following statistics come from 2007. These are the ones I teach in my nutrition course:
- In 2007 33.2 million people are estimated to be living with HIV.
- Global HIV prevalence, the percentage of people living with HIV, has leveled off.
- In 2007 2.5 million people became newly infected.
- In 2007 2.1 million people died of AIDS.
- In 2007 18 percent of those who have died of AIDS are children under the age of 15.
- The number of new infections has fallen, in part as a result of the impact of HIV programs.
- In 2007 68% of the global total, are in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Eight countries in the sub-Saharan Africa region now account for almost one-third of all new HIV infections and AIDS deaths globally.
- AIDS has killed more than 25 million people world-wide since it was first recognized in 1981.
Global AIDS - Where is the Disease?
Image source: UNAIDS. Executive summary: 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.
History of World AIDS Day
Yet governments, media and society in general were not giving AIDS adequate attention.
So, "people with AIDS had to literally take to the streets and block traffic and take over government buildings", Sawyer recalls.
World AIDS Day continues to be a day where the focus is on global solidarity for a pandemic that resulted in over 25 million deaths.
World AIDS Day at 20 Years
- World AIDS Day Marks 20th Anniversary Of Solidarity
- For Eric Sawyer, the late 1980s was a war time situation. People with AIDS were fighting for their lives and for their friends, says Sawyer, an AIDS activist and co-founder of ACT UP New York.
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Keep the Promise.
World AIDS Day on Wikipedia
World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. It is common to hold memorials to honor persons who have died from HIV/AIDS on this day. Government and health officials also observe the event, often with speeches or forums on the AIDS topics. Since 1995, the President of the United States has made an official proclamation on World AIDS Day. Governments of other nations have followed suit and issued similar announcements.
AIDS has killed more than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007,Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2008, (Geneva, Switzerland: UNAIDS, July 2008; English original), p. 15. and an estimated 33.2 million people worldwide live with HIV as of 2007,Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2008, (Geneva, Switzerland: UNAIDS, July 2008; English original), p. 32. making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed an estimated 2 million lives in 2007,Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2008, (Geneva, Switzerland: UNAIDS, July 2008; English origina...
20th Anniversary Special Edition Postcard
World AIDS Campaign
The World AIDS Campaign (WAC) has been established to support, strengthen and connect campaigns that hold leaders accountable for their promises on HIV and AIDS.The World AIDS Campaign (WAC) has been recognized as playing a unique role within civil society by supporting a strong social movement on AIDS that presses for promises to be kept.
More about the World AIDS Campaign
Their Objectives are:
- 1. To catalyze and strengthen national, inclusive campaigns for accountability on universal access;
2. To increase involvement in campaigning for accountability on universal access within and across international constituency-based networks; and
3. To increase access to resources and information to support more effective, campaigning for accountability on universal access.
- World AIDS Campaign | English
- The World AIDS Campaign has been established to strengthen and connect together the advocacy and campaign activities targeting governments and other stakeholders to deliver on their promises and commitments.
Facts about HIV/AIDS
Source: Aids.gov. HIV/AIDS 101.
- You cannot get HIV from shaking hands or hugging a person with HIV/AIDS.
- You cannot get HIV from using a public telephone, drinking fountain, restroom, swimming pool, Jacuzzi, or hot tub.
- You cannot get HIV from sharing a drink.
- You cannot get HIV from being coughed or sneezed on by a person with HIV/AIDS.
- You cannot get HIV from giving blood.
- You cannot get HIV from a mosquito bite.
World Aids Day, 1st of December - Free Hugs
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You Can't Get AIDS...
From a toilet seat
From a drinking fountain
From a doorknob
From dishes
From drinking glasses
From food, or pets
From mosquitoes
Prevention and Education
Since there is still no cure yet for HIV/AIDS the best thing to do is to understand how the virus is transmitted.
The transmission of HIV occurs through three well documented means:
- 1) having sex (anal, vaginal, or oral) with someone infected with HIV;
2) sharing needles and syringes with someone infected with HIV;
3) being exposed (fetus or infant) to HIV before or during birth or through breast feeding.
HIV transmission can be prevented through avoiding behaviors that expose someone to the means of transmission and by taking preventive measures if identified risk behaviors occur.
To protect yourself, do not inject illicit drugs and remember these ABCs:
- * A=Abstinence
* B=Be Faithful
* C=Condoms
Source: Aids.gov. Prevention and Education.
Word AIDS Day 2008 - Focus on Prevention
Know Your HIV Status? Text to Find a Test Center
In the United States, an estimated 1 million people are living with HIV and of these, approximately 25 percent are unaware of their HIV infection. These people are at increased risk for infecting others.A unique campaign has been developed using text messaging to promote HIV testing.
Mobile phone users can send a text message with their zip code to "KNOWIT" (566948). Within seconds, they will receive a text message identifying an HIV testing site near them.
This mobile phone service connects users with CDC's testing database found at www.HIVtest.org.
Empower. Stop AIDS
Books on Children and Young Adults Living with AIDS
Living With AIDS: Mary's Story (Children in Crisis)
Amazon Price: $31.00 (as of 11/23/2009) 
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
Amazon Price: $12.91 (as of 11/23/2009)
Children Of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability To Possibility (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Amazon Price: $26.00 (as of 11/23/2009)
Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk about AIDS
Amazon Price: $14.78 (as of 11/23/2009)
Chanda's Secrets
Amazon Price: $8.60 (as of 11/23/2009)
Never Give Up in the Amazon Spotlight
Never Give Up / Vignettes from Sub-Saharan Africa in the Age of AIDS
Amazon Price: $12.44 (as of 11/23/2009)
Never Give Up puts the AIDS pandemic into cultural context, raising questions about international health issues, cross-cultural experiences, racism, and homophobia.
Author Kevin Winge shares his firsthand knowledge of the realities and challenges facing people living with the disease.
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World AIDS Day Poster in the Amazon Spotlight
World AIDS Day Angel Abstract Giclee Poster Print by Terra Laurant, 20x16
Amazon Price: (as of 11/23/2009)
A World AIDS Day Angel by artist Terra Laurant.
A red ribbon supplies the form of a hooded, robed angel with the earth in its folds.
Size: 20 x 16 inches
Life-Saving Medicine Costs Less than a Dollar a Day
A Dollar a Day Makes a DifferenceLife-saving AIDS medicine often costs less than a dollar a day, yet few families in Africa can afford a dollar a day.
Keep a Child Alive provides medical services needed to make treatment possible. Doctors, nutrition, testing, transportation, and treatment for opportunistic infections are all necessary for anti-retroviral treatment to be successful.
Learn more about the Keep a Child Alive Campaign at their website, or the lens below.
More Ways to Help People with HIV/AIDS - Keep a Child Alive
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Keep a Child Alive
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Books for Talking to Children about AIDS on Amazon
You Can Call Me Willy: A Story for Children About AIDS
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 11/23/2009)
Come Sit by Me
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Be a Friend: Children Who Live With HIV Speak (An Albert Whitman Prairie Book)
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Kids With AIDS (The Aids Awareness Library)
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Celebrating World AIDS Day - Keep the Promise
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Bloggers Unite for World AIDS Day - December 1, 2008
On December 1st, bloggers from around the world will unite for World AIDS Day 2008. Worldwide an estimated 33 million people are living with HIV.In the United States, an estimated one million Americans are living with HIV. In response, both the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy's AIDS.gov have come together to share HIV/AIDS information with the blogging community for World AIDS Day 2008.
Join bloggers on December 1st in recognition of World AIDS Day 2008. NIDA and AIDS.gov are working with Bloggers Unite because we value and recognize the power of a voice. Multiply that voice by the thousands and the sound of humanity will echo the blogosphere.
Working together, everyone can reduce the stigma of this pandemic through words, voices and actions.
Bloggers Unite
By asking bloggers to write about a particular subject on 1 day of the month, a single voice can be joined with thousands to help make a difference; from raising awareness for cancer, to an effort to better education systems or supporting 3rd world countries.
- Bloggers Unite
- Website for Bloggers Unite, sponsored by BlogCatalog.
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Freddie Mercury's Death Broke the Silence Around AIDS
Freddie Mercury only died one day after releasing a statement that he had AIDS and encouraged fans to pick up the fight. "I hope that everyone will join with my doctors and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease."- Ironically, since he had been declared HIV positive, he had striven to keep his condition a secret and to ensure that no shame could come upon his family, yet his death helped to open the doors for debate worldwide. AIDS was no longer a stigma, a gay plague, a shame.
His death took AIDS from being 'something other people have' to something the whole world needed to wise up to. In every tribute to the great man, from concerts to singles, books to t-shirts, AIDS awareness was ever present.
When Mercury died, the silence surrounding AIDS died with him.
Quote Source: Freddie Mercury. Fyne Times.
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Lover of Life, Singer of Songs in the Amazon Spotlight
Lover Of Life, Singer Of Songs: The Very Best Of Freddie Mercury Solo (2CD)
Amazon Price: $11.97 (as of 11/23/2009)
A special two Cd collection highlighting the Best of Freddie Mercury, Lover of Life Singer of Songs.
This collection shows how much talent was lost when Freddie died much too young from AIDS.
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Freddie Mercury - Queen
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Who Wants To Live Forever? - A Reminder of the Fleeting Time
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I always find the song "Who Wants to Live Forever?" sung by lead singer Freddie Mercury from the English Rock Band Queen to be a haunting and poignant reminder of just how fleeting our time here really is. The lyrics for this song sung by F...
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Freddie Mercury and Queen Video Showcase
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On November 24, 1991 the world lost one of the greatest musical voices of all times with the passing of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer for the group Queen. An energetic and entertaining showman, Freddie Mercury is often referred to as "...
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Freddie Mercury and Queen - The Virtual Concert on Squidoo
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If I were going to host a Virtual Benefit Concert for one of my favorite charities, I would choose to feature the amazingly talented Freddie Mercury, lead singer for the Rock Band, Queen to raise funds for HIV / AIDS Awareness. Freddie Mercury (born...
Donate to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs.
Donate to the AIDS Research Alliance
AIDS Research Alliance of America (ARA) tackles HIV on many fronts. The organization is pioneering a revolutionary business model for conducting medical research in the United States, influencing the direction of HIV research along the way.
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Every minute, 10 people become infected with HIV. 5 people die of AIDS each minute of every day. Only medical research can stop these numbers from spiraling.AIDS Research Alliance searches for ways to stop new HIV infections and find a cu...
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Benefitting AIDS Organizations
This lens benefits the AIDS Research Alliance and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs.
AIDS Research Alliance searches for ways to stop new HIV infections and find a cure to AIDS. They are conducting research on a larger, more diverse variety of AIDS treatments than any other community-based organization.
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