World AIDS Day
Because this blog comes out on Friday, I wasn’t able to write about World AIDS Day on the actual day, which was yesterday. But fighting AIDS isn’t a one day event. This is the 30 th year since AIDS was discovered. According to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 34 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS, two million of which are children. Some of the organizations that fight AIDS on a daily basis are: Aids.org AIDS United America Social Health Association Avert Bailey House Elton John AIDS Foundation Gay Men’s Health Crisis Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation Keep A Child Alive Project Hope The theme for World AIDS Day this year is 'Getting to Zero.' That stands for zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. If you want to be a part of doing that, y ou can do something tangible by donating to the 2015 AIDS quilt . It includes more than 94,000 names of people who have ...