LINKALICIOUS // 12.01.08 // WORLD AIDS DAY

:: WORLD AIDS DAY 1988-2008 ::

More people than ever before are living with HIV worldwide and new infections continue. HIV is a serious long term condition and people with HIV often face discrimination. According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus.

Around 95 percent of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.

Started on December 1st, 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done [eFlux - UNAIDS - 2008 World Aids Day]



A mother and her 10 month-old baby girl infected HIV holds in a shelter house in Jayapura of Indonesia. A woman encourages use of condoms during a rally at a poor district of Abidjan. A man dressed as a condom runs during an AIDS and HIV prevention campaign at a square in downtown Lima. Chinese AIDS patients wait for treatment at a special ward for HIV/AIDS sufferers at a hospital in southwest China.



:: Actor Daniel Radcliffe auctions the Lucky Brand jeans he wore in the show, after a matinee performance of the play "Equus", to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS in New York.



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