Each year, 1st December is celebrated as WORLD AIDS DAY.
The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988.
Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education.
World AIDS Day provides governments, national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations, and individuals with an opportunity to raise awareness and focus attention on the global AIDS epidemic.
The World AIDS Day theme for 2009 is ‘Universal Access and Human Rights’. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.
According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.4 million people living with HIV, including 2.1 million children. During 2008 some 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus and an estimated 2 million people died from AIDS. 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.
The vast majority of people with HIV and AIDS live in lower- and middle-income countries. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.
Lets us all join hands to fight with this deadly disease and increase awareness about this disease.
KNOW AIDS FOR NO AIDS.
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