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WorLd AIDS dAy

Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise - Lead - Empower - Deliver

today..1st December is the World Aids Day of 2008..i actually didn't realize it until when i checked my email n saw the ad on Yahoo! screen.Some of us don't aware about what is Aids n so this campaign is held."Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise - Lead - Empower - Deliver" is the theme for year 2008.

Aids has led to the deaths of more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.The number of people living with HIV continues to rise in most parts of the world, despite strenuous prevention strategies.Sub-Saharan Africa remains the hardest-hit region,with an estimated 22.5 million people living with HIV at the end of 2007, 68% of the global total.Several key facts surrounding the origin of HIV/AIDS are currently unknown, particularly where and when the pandemic began, though it is thought that HIV originated in chimpanzees.

And enough with the facts about HIV/AIDS,now the story of this campaign, started early on the year of 1988.WHO declared December 1, 1988 as the first World AIDS Day. The United Nations General Assembly formally recognized the event in October 1988.Since then, the event has been taken up by governments, international organizations and charities around the world.In 2004, the World AIDS Campaign became an independent organization (this the part shows the reason i like!). World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done....

People out there,maybe wondering what is/are the way(s) to support this World AIDS day, so here i stated a few of them :

1. Wear a red ribbon and sell red ribbons to friends, colleagues, anyone you can think of.
2. Join the World AIDS Day campaign to get every MP wearing a red ribbon.
3. Participate the Bloggers Unite on every 1st December..---> http://unite.blogcatalog.com/
4. Join any campaign on the way to stop the AIDS from spreading or any campaign to prevent the HIV/AIDS.
5. Tell your family,friends or even your foe,how dangerous the HIV and how the viruses can be the murderer.
6. Help people with AIDS/HIV by giving them support n anything that show them how care we are of them n let they think that they are still "one" of us,no barrier exist.
7. Donate to some of the AIDS/HIV foundation (as your donation can help to cure the HIV patients)
8. A named Red Ribbon Fund can help you and your friends and family join together to pay tribute to the person you loved ---> http://tht.tributefunds.com/