World AIDS Day 2009 Google and twitter are turned red
World AIDS Day 2009 Google and twitter are turned red and supporting with red ribbon.
Everyone is joining hands to raise awareness and support the 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS. Google has also come up to help the people living with Aids. Google has flashed
On its homepage that today is ‘World AIDS Day’ and how one can contribute by learn, act, and give on.
Google is supporting UNAIDS Uniting the world against HIV/AIDS,All For Good volunteer for HIV/AIDS related activites in your area. The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria: Make a donation through the United Nations Foundation.
IAS Check the latest developments in HIV/AIDS.ONE Campaign: Fight preventable diseases.(RED): Give (RED), Save Lives. Watch the Lazarus Effect.
LIVING PROOF: Investments in global health are working Act Against AIDS: Be part of the solution.Watch Alicia Keys’ benefit concert for World AIDS Day live on YouTube.
The twitter is also appealing everyone ‘1 DEC is World AIDS day. Help turn Twitter (RED). Follow @JoinRED to find out how?
On 24th November 2009, UNAIDS and the WHO released its annual AIDS Epidemic Update which indicating that 33.4 million people were living with HIV in 2008, up slightly from 2007.
The higher figure is credited to increased availability to treatment allowing more people to live longer. Overall, the report shows that new infections have dropped 17 % over the past eight years. Despite areas of progress, children still account for 2.1 million of people living with HIV, although the number of deaths has declined.
The number of children newly infected with HIV in 2008 was roughly 18% lower than in 2001.
Everyone wants to contribute in raising awareness about AIDS. Here we are suggesting some simple tips how one can help out world in raising awareness against HIV.
1) Find out the facts about HIV and do not contribute in talking myths always give right information to your friends, colleagues or relatives.
2) Get yourself tested today and advice everyone to use condoms. Always treat HIV positive person respectfully and never disclose others without their agreement.
3) Wear a red ribbon as a symbol of your support for everyone affected by HIV and raise awareness.
