World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS day.
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Started in 1988, World AIDS Day is about increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away and a reminder of the promise to do something about it. I've had it in my mind to post about it for a while but I'll chuck you over to Paul's blog first.
Started in 1988, World AIDS Day is about increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away and a reminder of the promise to do something about it. I've had it in my mind to post about it for a while but I'll chuck you over to Paul's blog first.
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After yesterday's geography exam I could write about AIDS being a sign of an impending Malthusian crisis and what that means. The BBC news for NI state that in NI there are 285 people receiving treatment for HIV. There are 40 million worldwide infected with a huge 75% of those in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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There are all these facts and figures surrounding HIV/AIDS - and being a geography student means I need to know some of them! But it's so easy to know the figure and to run it off but it's easy to forget at a human level that is 40 million sons, daughters, husbands, wives, parents, friends, neighbours. Each of those people encompassed in that figure 40 million are unique individuals who dealing with a horrible disease.
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We CAN make a difference. We HAVE to make difference. Or at least give it our best because if we do nothing what legacy will that leave, what will that say to those who see this disease every day and know these people can be helped?
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Go on, do something. I dare you...
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posted by Rach @ 12:08 PM
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