I'm a really big supporter of helping to stop the spread of HIV and/or AIDS, so please, do your part, and read this:
Today, on World AIDS Day, it is important to remember Africa has been hit harder by the HIV/AIDS virus than any other region of the world. More than 25 million Africans have HIV. Today, 6,300 people in Africa will die of HIV/AIDS and another 8,500 will become infected with the virus. Tomorrow, the cycle will repeat itself. The African continent is losing an entire generation of teachers, nurses, farmers, mothers, and fathers, already leaving behind 12 million orphans.
UNAIDS released a report in advance of World AIDS Day with a special focus on women. According to this report, in sub-Saharan Africa, the worst-affected region, close to 60% of adults living with HIV are women.
What can we, as Americans, do to help? If you haven’t done so already, please take ONE minute now to add your voice to the ONE hundred thousand others who have signed the ONE campaign declaration. If you have already signed, please forward this message to your friends and family, and ask them to sign this pledge to help the poorest people of the world overcome AIDS and extreme poverty:
http://www.theONEcampaign.org Thank you, people on LiveJournal, for reading this. And if you do not click on that link, then you shall live with the fact that you could have saved at least one person's life