World AIDS

30. November 2010 | 11:31

Communities mark World AIDS Day

WOOD RIVER - Madison County has scheduled several events throughout the area to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS on Wednesday, Dec.1, the national and international observation of World AIDS Day. (News Source: The Telegraph - 02:40:10)

World AIDS Day Events in Little Rock

The Arkansas Minority Health Commission (AMHC) is calling on the state legislature and the public to get involved on World AIDS Day this Wednesday. (News Source: KARK Little Rock - 21:21:48)

World AIDS day message

The theme for this year’s annual World AIDS Day is, “Universal Access & Human Rights”. Since the first case of AIDS was discovered three decades ago a lot of lives have been lost resulting in increased number of orphans. (News Source: Mmegi - 18:57:22)

World AIDS Day and the unbearable lightness of, like, Kim Kardashian

Several celebrities are planning to raise awareness about World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. While there is nothing wrong with celebrities becoming activists, many of their ventures do little to assure donors that their money is being used well. (News Source: The Christian Science Monitor - 17:15:18)

Gillard, Bono see Sydney turn red for AIDS Day

To mark World AIDS Day tomorrow, Julia Gillard joined Bono at a ceremony that saw the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge lit up in red. (News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 10:25:41)

Anthony Westbury: Bowed but not beaten, HIV/AIDS still haunts St. Lucie

Wednesday is World AIDS Day. First held in the late 1980s, when the disease was devastating America and the world, things have changed almost two decades later, but by how much? (News Source: St. Lucie News Tribune - 21:16:00)

World AIDS Day

Wednesday 1st December is World AIDS Day. In Gibraltar, Friends for Life (the HIV/AIDS awareness and support group) will this year be distributing free, the now traditional Red Ribbons and information leaflets at Bayside and Westside Secondary schools, the Gibraltar College, Saint Bernard’s Hospital, the Primary Care Centre and major shops in Main Street. (News Source: Panorama - 10:07:26)

Celebrity Blackout on Twitter and Facebook for World AIDS Day

Can you go without Lady Gaga tweets for a day? On Wednesday you might have to. It’s part of a $1 million fundraiser for World AIDS Day called Digital Life Sacrifice . Lady Gaga, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, and others all plan to deprive their fans of momentary musings until the fans donate $1 million to Alicia Keys AIDS charity Keep A Child Alive . Think of it as celebrity social … (News Source: GOOD - 16:23:50)

World Aids Day: campaigners warn HIV has not gone away

New annual infections fall from 2.7m to 2.6m; deaths are down to 1.8m a year, but 10m still don’t get the drugs they need Aids has finally gone out of fashion, almost 30 years after the pandemic began. It is no longer front-page news. There was a time when Europe and the US had to be seen to help the millions who were dying of an incurable illness in the developing world, but with some stability … (News Source: Guardian Unlimited - 17:12:09)

Monday Q&A | AIDS quilt exhibit begins

As part of the observance of World AIDS Day on Wednesday, a section of the 54-ton AIDS Memorial Quilt is on exhibit here on the Grand Strand beginning today. (News Source: The Myrtle Beach Sun News - 04:50:31)

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