Showing posts with label World AIDS Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World AIDS Day. Show all posts

02 December 2009

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 ]