World AIDS Day

December 1st was WORLD AIDS DAY.

Did u know 67% of those w/HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa but it’s home to 10% of world's population!

33mm people in world have HIV. 22mm live in Africa. Today’s World AIDS Day. Help fight AIDS in Africa. Help turn Facebook (RED)! [ via @(RED) ]

About 14.1m children in Africa have been orphaned because of AIDS. Yet it’s preventable & treatable. [ via @(RED) ]

More than 1,000 children are infected with HIV every day in Africa. Yet it’s preventable & treatable. [ via @(RED) ]

1 out of every 4 Americans living with HIV doesn't know it. [ via @OMGFacts on twitter ]

12-15k Angelenos are living with HIV and don't know it. Let's continue the LA initiative - 1 mil tested by 2011! [ via @villaraigosa on twitter ]
http://bit.ly/5lM7YO

Positive? Negative? Don't Know? Enter your zip code to find a testing center near you: http://www.hivtest.org/-- KNOW!

Today is World AIDS Day. Let's take a moment to remember the 25,000,000+ people who have died of HIV/AIDS since the discovery in 1981.

In Africa, more than 40 Million children have been orphaned due to HIV. [ via @OMGFacts on twitter ]

African Americans, who make up only 12 percent of the U.S. population, now make up more than 49 percent of new infections and nearly 40 percent of all HIV/AIDS deaths in the U.S. [ via glaad blog @ http://glaadblog.org/2009/..12/01/december-1st-is-worl..d-aids-day/ ]

Women represent half of all the people living with AIDS / HIV. [ via @OMGFacts on twitter ]