World AIDS Day - Ending AIDS

December 1st, 2007

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

World AIDS Day is observed every year on December 1st. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988. 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 Facts - In 2007, the estimated number of persons living with HIV worldwide was 33.2 million and there were 2.1 million AIDS deaths

AIDS RIBBON

“According to data collected from 2001 to 2004, black adults and adolescents accounted for 51% of new HIV infections in the United States. These startling statistics, which come from 33 states that have used name-based reporting of HIV and AIDS cases since 2001, were published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the March 9 issue of its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).” - AIDSmeds.com

Because of this factor and the problems with extreme (though significantly improving in some of the continents countries) AIDS rates of African countries, Afrosphere Bloggers along with others have come together to make this next week a week that we focus special attention towards raising social consciousness around AIDS so we can begin to end the spread.

Knowledge is the key. If you know how to prevent yourself from catching HIV, and you exercise that knowledge, their are only minimal possibilities that you would ever contract it; one being through birth, but even in that instance their are prevention treatments that can prevent mother to unborn child transmission that we need to make more greatly available globally.

I cannot encourage people enough to watch the Frontline/PBS documentary the Age of AIDS - free online.

Here is a trailer:

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4 Responses to “World AIDS Day - Ending AIDS”

  1. MrsGrapevine on December 1st, 2007 9:56 pm | link

    This most certainly a horrible epidemic!!!

  2. Barbara J. Spraggins on December 3rd, 2007 4:02 am | link

    This is certainly another devestating disease plaguing the Black community. The Black community has to realize that this disease is killing us. We must learn to practice safe sex, first and foremost. I read a report which stated that 60% of the heterosexual HIV/AIDS victims are Black females. Candid sex is no joke, it could mean our very lives.

    We need to get prevention information out to the Black community and we need to keep it out there. Now, the numbers are rising among our young people, compared to other ethnicities. The report went on to say that one of the causes is because there are more powerful drugs out here to help combat the disease and people are able to maintain their health. The article stated that when the world was made aware of AIDS, that pictures dispicting people infected, showed sickly looking people. Now, we cannot tell whether a person has the disease just by looking at them because drugs have enabled people to continue looking healthy. People have begun to have a false sense of security This disease is killing people, especially Black folk, and if we don’t continue awareness about this disease, the number of people dying from AIDS will be on the rise more so than it is now.

    We need to admonish our children that first, if possible, abstain from sex. If they are having sex, then they need to know how important it is to use protection. We, as a Black community, also need to realize the importance of testing. I would venture to say that it does not matter what age group you are in, if you are going to become sexually active with someone, then please get tested. The life you save may be your own.

  3. cooper on December 3rd, 2007 4:19 am | link

    Is it not amazing on World Aids Day how little there was out there on AIDS?

    I thank you for doing this.

  4. D. Yobachi Boswell on December 3rd, 2007 5:31 pm | link

    Barbara, I think the institutions in the Black community (churches, civil rights organizations, etc.) need to take a much stronger roll in relaying AIDS awarness information and prevention.

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