If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention
World AIDS Day is tomorrow.
Please educate yourselves, go to a lecture (if one is offered nearby), and TELL PEOPLE.
It's incomprehensible that this epidemic gets one day of media attention a year, but sometimes you just have to take what you can get.
10,000 people die from AIDS everyday. That's one person every 8 seconds. Today, more than 20 million are infected. In a few years, there will be 40 million orphans whose parents died from the disease. And they will (most likely) be infected as well.
A vaccine for AIDS is quite possible and in the works, but horribly underfunded. Pregnant women who are infected can protect their unborn child from infection with medication that is only available in the developed world. People with HIV/AIDS are living for 20+ years now with appropriate antiretroviral drug combination therapy, but the drugs are extremely expensive, the side effects are similar to those of chemotherapy (imagine being on chemo for the rest of your life) and in many of our states, the government just won't shell out the money and insurance necessary. AIDS is chiefly a heterosexual disase today; no more GRIDS and blaming gays (or so one would suppose).
I could ring off stats forever, but I'd rather everyone look for themselves.
Please educate yourselves, go to a lecture (if one is offered nearby), and TELL PEOPLE.
It's incomprehensible that this epidemic gets one day of media attention a year, but sometimes you just have to take what you can get.
10,000 people die from AIDS everyday. That's one person every 8 seconds. Today, more than 20 million are infected. In a few years, there will be 40 million orphans whose parents died from the disease. And they will (most likely) be infected as well.
A vaccine for AIDS is quite possible and in the works, but horribly underfunded. Pregnant women who are infected can protect their unborn child from infection with medication that is only available in the developed world. People with HIV/AIDS are living for 20+ years now with appropriate antiretroviral drug combination therapy, but the drugs are extremely expensive, the side effects are similar to those of chemotherapy (imagine being on chemo for the rest of your life) and in many of our states, the government just won't shell out the money and insurance necessary. AIDS is chiefly a heterosexual disase today; no more GRIDS and blaming gays (or so one would suppose).
I could ring off stats forever, but I'd rather everyone look for themselves.