the World Health Organization report the world AIDS epidemic continues to grow, with an estimated 39.5 million people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS
this means every eight seconds somebody in the world is infected with HIV, resulting in 11,000 people becoming newly infected every day
approximately 4.3 million became newly infected with HIV and 2.9 million died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2006
according to the World AIDS Campaign, sub-Saharan Africa remains the epicenter of the AIDS pandemic, but no country is unaffected, and incidence rates are rising in a number of developed countries
India (5 million people affected - the largest number in any one country - the AIDS epidemic is fastest growing in Asia)
Eastern Europe (many are IV drug users)
USA (about 1 million people affected, 25 % don't know)
AIDS is a 100% preventable
new strategies for overcoming the pandemic of AIDS
2006 slogan: Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise
2 comments:
And keep talking would also seem to be good advice. In Australia, gay men seem to be getting complacent and new infection rates in the gay centre of Sydney are approaching that of Africa. It doesn't pay to forget.
Exactly - anytime, anywhere, anyone, rich, poor, beautiful, strong, weak, young, old ...
... it is good to remember our own mortality - somehow feeling that we have to own the future or have some rights over others, become less prominent. I don;t know how people think they can domiante teh world, when they have no power over their own mortality.
Take lots of good care of being angry and making us all laugh at the truth!
Nazli
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