World AIDS Day 2009: December 1
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Next Tuesday, December 1 is World AIDS Day 2009. This year’s theme—’Universal Access and Human Rights’—highlights the need to protect human rights and attain universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
There are currently 33.4 million people living with HIV worldwide. As we noted on our blog yesterday, while this number is slightly higher than 2007, it’s for a promising reason: access to life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has gone up, so fewer people are dying from HIV. Since 2002, the number of Africans receiving ARV treatment has gone from 50,000 to over 3 million. But 2.7 million people are still newly infected with HIV every year, and infections still outpace those put on treatment.
All next week—to celebrate the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Days—we’ll be sharing information and stories about HIV/AIDS, including some partner posts from folks who are working to fight this disease on the ground. So stayed tuned to the ONE blog!
To learn more about HIV/AIDS, check out ONE’s issue page here.
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December 2, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Here’s a letter I wrote to the President and Congress at http://www.Congress.org:
Yesterday was World AIDS Day and like to inform people about HIV/AIDS statistics by sending them to http://www.Avert.org, and other HIV related websites like http://www.thebody.com and http://www.One.org. I encourage people to write a letter to http://www.congress.org about giving support to people living with disabilities like HIV, especially people in impoverished parts of the world where medicine and medical treatment is scarce.
The medicine has gotten better and people develop AIDS less but living with HIV is still very serious manageable illness. People are still being infected at a alarming rate of 40,000 people every year in the U.S. alone. I send my peace out to all who care and would like to know about any new legislation regarding HIV/AIDS. Thanks.
Sincerely, Ruben Santos Claveria
http://www.twitter.com/RubenandMike
http://www.myspace.com/earthcircle
December 3, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Sir,
Yes, the time has come to address the disabilities caused by HIV/AIDS. It is true that, in all developing & under developing countries, AIDS effected are not able to get medicine, leave alone HIV positives. So, a TWO fold strategy is the need of the hour, the first one is to bring the medicine to the door step of the affected, which is possible with the involvement of all sections of people & Pharmaceutics, the other one is to take effective Preventive steps to protect the young generation, especially, college going students, the most vulnerable lot, from becoming prey to HIV. They are in experimental stage with very little knowledge, they got during their schooling about HIV/AIDS. So, massive Awareness programs are to be conducted in colleges / universities, around the world , to make the world HIV/AIDS free,by 2012….Sincerely , Babu Rao Basala, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.