World AIDS Day revisited

This is a post by the webmaster to acknowledge an important campaign as well as this blog’s first post from one year ago;
World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day is an international effort to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS around the world. Held 1 December every year, it has been an ongoing campaign since 1988. Understanding the facts is that crucial first step to finally fighting the prejudice and continuing to protect ourselves. With more people than ever before living with HIV across the globe, it’s not surprising that Christopher first posted herein on this date last year from a sincere heart and serious concern for the many affected. I encourage you to read that post and allow this issue to become personal for you, if it hasn’t already, for the statistics are not yet getting better:

People living with HIV

• 33.4 million people living with HIV worldwide
• 31.3 million adults
• 15.7 million women
• 2.1 million children under 15

New HIV cases in 2008

• 2.7 million people
• 2.3 million adults
• 430,000 children under 15

HIV-related deaths in 2008

• 2 million total deaths

All figures from UNAIDS.