Dec 01

Advocates For AIDS

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Visual Culture presents this collection of non-profit organization logos to keep with our theme today that is focused on raising awareness for HIV/AIDS as part of World AIDS Day 2009. Each organization is dedicated to combat AIDS.

1. Youth AIDS
2. Love Heals
3. Africare
4. Debt AIDS Trade Africa (DATA)
5. ONE
6. Elton John AIDS Foundation
7. amfAR
8. Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC)
9. International AIDS Society
10. (RED)
11. UNAIDS
12. Pangaea
13. AIDS Alliance
14. World Vision

Please feel free to add to our list.

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Dec 01

Today is World AIDS Day

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Image from Lights for Rights

World AIDS Day has been held on December 1st since 1988. The intention is to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS across the globe. For this years event the theme is focused on human rights and access to treatment.

Below are a few sobering facts about HIV and AIDS:

• A total of 33 million people now live with HIV/AIDS. Two million of them are under the age of 15.

• In 2008, an estimated 2.7 million people were infected with HIV.

• Every day 7,397 people contract HIV—308 every hour.

• In 2008, 2.0 million people died from AIDS.

• More than two-thirds (67 percent) of all people living with HIV, 22 million, live in sub-Saharan Africa—including 90 percent of the world’s HIV-positive children.

For additional facts about AIDS you can go here.

Want to get involved? Go here to see if an event is going on in your area.

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