World AIDS Day Is Coming

November 18th, 2008

World Aids Day is December 1st every year and last year we did a week of Black Blogging To End AIDS. This year it’s just going to be Blogging to End AIDS, and we’ll do something Black specific surrounding National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7th.

I think it worked out well last time, and a lot of you participated so we’ll keep the same format.

The purpose will be to raise AIDS awareness, most particularly to help prevention of the spread of the disease.

It will be a week long event starting December 1st and going through the 7th; which means you can do your post (or multiple post would be even better) at anytime during the week, as opposed to just on one specific day. How many post you do is optional, but you need only do one to participate.

Please sign up in the comments with your name or net handle and FULL clickable url so that I can keep track and do a wrap up post highlighting all the bloggers that participate.

Example: Yobachi http://www.blackperspective.net

There’s plenty of information on the web that you can research about AIDS, including the particular issues for the Black Diaspora, so it’s not necessary that you have a great amount of AIDS knowledge to participate. You can be effective by simply pulling together some information from others sources and putting it in front of people.

World Aids Day Logo

From the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

About the Day
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 2.7 million people newly infected.



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14 Responses to “World AIDS Day Is Coming”

  1. Sandra on November 19th, 2008 11:51 pm | link

    I will be writing a post about HIV/AIDS. I’ve started working on the post so if there is anything you want me to highlight send me an email.

  2. D. Yobachi Boswell on November 19th, 2008 11:55 pm | link

    Glad you’re participating Sandra. You can write anything you want, that you think achieves the purpose of creating awareness towards helping prevention.

    Sandra http://www.aladysperspective.blogspot.com/

  3. BlackWomenInEurope on November 21st, 2008 10:50 am | link

    I will participate Yobachi. Thanks for organizing us again this year. All I ask is that you send me a reminder so that I can schedule a full week of posts on HIV/AIDS prevention.

  4. Villager on November 21st, 2008 9:20 pm | link

    Hi Yobachi — Electronic Village will participate again this year. Thanks for taking leadership to organize this effort.

    Electronic Village
    http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com

    peace, Villager

  5. a.eye on November 25th, 2008 2:40 pm | link

    I will be participating on my blog as well. I think it is really necessary to get information out to the masses about this disease and about its impact.

  6. Marvalus on November 30th, 2008 6:57 pm | link

    Hi Yobachi…

    I will be participating again this year.

    http://themarvalusview.com

  7. D. Yobachi Boswell on November 30th, 2008 8:48 pm | link

    Thanks to all of you for stepping up to participate.

    My post should be up tonight.

  8. Jose on November 30th, 2008 8:59 pm | link

    You already know. I’m down.

    thejosevilson.com/blog

  9. Jose on December 1st, 2008 6:22 am | link

    I’ve already posted it. You’ll see it soon.

  10. PurpleZoe on December 1st, 2008 7:07 am | link

    Peace Yobachi ^_^

    Thankyou for initiating this campaign.

    My post is here:
    http://purplezoe.blogspot.com/2008/11/world-aids-day-communication.html

    ~~~Shine on~~~*

  11. Theo J. on December 1st, 2008 7:18 am | link

    Just posted it. Thanks for leading the effort.

    http://www.theotalks.net/2008/12/today-is-world-aids-day-2008/

  12. Faye Anderson on December 1st, 2008 5:23 pm | link

    Hi Yobachi,

    Here’s the link to my post, “World AIDS Day 2008: Keep the Promise”

    http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/andersonlarge/2008/12/world-aids-day-2008.html

    Best,

    Faye

  13. brian on December 3rd, 2008 8:29 am | link

    Hi Yobachi,

    This is my post for World AIDS Day 2008 - “What did you do on World AIDS Day?”

    http://harmlessbananas.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-did-you-do-on-world-aids-day.html

    cheers,
    brian

  14. D. Yobachi Boswell on December 10th, 2008 11:32 pm | link

    Thanks to all who posted. The round up post is up: http://www.blackperspective.net/index.php/blogging-to-end-aids-round-up/

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