Odds of dying from a wasp, bee or hornet sting: 1 in 5.9 million
Odds of a child becoming an Olympic athlete : 1 in 29,000
Odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime: 1 in 6250
Odds of getting a hole in one: 1 in 5,000
Odds of being sued by the RIAA for illegally downloading music: 1 in 1840
Odds of a women getting pregnant after the age of ( Read more... )

"The Cheyenne River Reservation located in the State of South Dakota, homeland of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, is currently facing an emergency situation due to an ice storm that crippled the electrical and water infrastructure. Though the ice storm has passed, the water and power system remains challenged and several Reservation communities ( Read more... )

Every year I talk about the HIV epidemic and tell you that you may know someone who...

This year it will be a little different.

I don't use drugs or share needles. I am not a sex worker. I use a condom 95% of the time. I'm a thirty-five mother of two in an eleven year monogamous marriage with a man. I am an AIDS activist.

And last October I took an ( Read more... )

I'm too sick to do my whole spiel today even though there are people more sick than me out there who do amazing things everyday. My journal will be silent for the rest of the day and please, please, please click through my entries on the December 1st tag.

World Aids Day

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It's just about Prime Time on the east coast, that magic hour between 8 and 10 pm when everyone settles down in front of a television set.

But before you get comfy, I'd like to remind you of something.

Five people die of AIDS and AIDS related illness every minute, and as of 8 pm the death toll is 6,000 people. That's double the number of people ( Read more... )

Let's talk safe sex, or rather, safer sex through condom usage.


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You CAN'T get AIDS from:

1. Kissing

At the moment, scientific opinion is pretty clear that you cannot become infected with HIV through kissing.

To become infected with HIV you must get a sufficient quantity of HIV into the bloodstream. Saliva does contain HIV, but the virus is only present in very small quantities and as such, cannot cause HIV ( Read more... )

Are you a parent? Have you talked to your kids about HIV or AIDS? Maybe you should.

"Across the globe, AIDS is responsible for an increasing number of deaths each year. Of the estimated 2.8 million killed in 2005, around half a million were children aged [younger than] 15 years." -- avert.org

Tick Tock. The watch face changes and time is a harsh mistress.

Five people die of AIDS every minute. At 2:30 pm, fourteen and a half hours had passed in the day. There are 870 minutes in fourteen and a half hours.

As of 2:30 pm today, 4,350 people died of AIDS and AIDS related illnesses.

4,350 people are gone in one day at the mercy of one ( Read more... )