World AIDS Day / Google Could Have Done Better

Today is World AIDS Day. It also marks the 20th anniversary of this observance. Since 1988, the face and response to AIDS has greatly changed. While many of these changes are positive, it still reminds us of what still needs to be done. My church will again be holding services in observance of this day, followed by a sit-down dinner in the Church Hall. Many organizations will be joining us in this service, including the United Way and the nearby AIDS hospice. I was a bit disheartened by the lack of acknowledgement that Google provided for this day. What is usually typical for Google is that on the home page the Google logo usually is altered in some way to acknowledge the holiday of the day, or someone’s birthday. And if you clicked on the Google logo, you were redirected to a page that lists all kinds of websites with info about that holiday or person’s birthday. Google decided to just put a small red ribbon at the bottom of the screen and state, “Learn more about World AIDS Day.”

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Gary Baseman and Tatiana Arocha for JWT’s GAPA/BS World Aids Day Safe Sex Campaign

1. Gary Baseman and Tatiana Arocha for JWT’s GAPA/BS World Aids Day Safe Sex Campaign: I often am very jealous that other country’s have a more fun and whimsical view of taboo subjects, namely, sex. This advertisement from In Latin America is adorable, and sends a lovely message about personal safety in sexual situations.

2. 10 Stocking Stuffers for Traveling Technophiles: Life Scoop puts together a list of some of the coolest gifts for your travel-loving tech geek this holiday season.

3. Lona, A Fairy Tale: Now out of print, this fairy tale written, photographed and modeled by children’s book author Dare Wright is a surreal, haunting journey through fable and psyche.

4. Mick Jagger is the Best Client Ever: As a designer, you quickly learn that working with clients can be a study in misery and frustration, yielding small kernels of joy when you can get them to see your vision. This letter, written by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to their album designer, is the kind of client direction that would bring any of us in the creative arts to joyful tears.

5. 15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online: Let’s be honest - a lot of free stock photography just plain sucks. This handy resource of some of the best stock photo sites the web has to offer will make it just a little bit easier to discover that diamond in the rough.

6. Touch-Screen Gloves: I know your plight - now that it is could, how on earth will you control your iPhone, and maintain a reasonable core temperature in your fingers?? Fear not! Crafters to the rescue!

7. Crazy-Dangerous Animals Become Friends: It’s finally happened - the trimuvirate of the most deadly animals on the planet has finally formed. I am moving to Jupiter, because we are all fucked.

Finally, the Muppets doing “Bohemian Rhapsody” may just be the greatest thing to happen EVER.

Havana observes World AIDS Day

Dec. 1st is the official World AIDS Day. For the 2009 campaign, the theme is “Universal Access and Human Rights”. In the words of the UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé, “that means doing everything we can to support countries to reach their universal access goals for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support – all the while protecting and promoting human rights”. Data gathered until 2009 indicates that new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% since 2001. On the other hand, there are more people, about 33.4 million, living with HIV than ever before. Those two figures are probably related to the same cause: universalization – of prevention methods (which reduced the infections) and of treatment (which made people live longer).

On this Dec. 1st, the Havana Boys would like to commemorate World AIDS Day by reminding people of the importance of fighting both HIV and the prejudice around it. Actually, it is our belief that fighting prejudice also emcompasses giving the right information about it (and helping to prevent new infections) and recognizing the rights of those infected with HIV – the right to be treated and to fully participate in their communities.

It is just a small contribution, but a freebie by Havana will be given at three different parties in Second Life on this World AIDS Day. You can get your “Fight HIV & Prejudice Jeans” at the Sky Beach party, from 12 a.m to 2 p.m. SL time, at the 80’s in Un

s” at the Sky Beach party, from 12 a.m to 2 p.m. SL time, at the 80’s in Undies Party, at Gay World, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. SL time, or, after that, at the Sky Ranch party
As part of our observance of World AIDS Day and AIDS awareness, Havana will also be taking part in the Stamp Out AIDS hunt from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31 (visit our store at The Gayborhood). Each of the 182 participating vendors will have a freebie in their shop; the giver is an AIDS ribbon with a spinning globe. Each vendor will also have a donation kiosk (a larger AIDS ribbon); all monies donated here will go to Bronx AIDS Services. The starting point for the hunt is here (ATTENTION: we have originally given the wrong slurl for the starting point; the slurl is correct now). Later, we will post further on the hunt and the Havana gift for it.

"THE NERVE" - Project :: World AIDS Day 2010

** S-cap, The Southern Colorado AIDS Project
" Today's a day to take action.

Talk about HIV prevention with your friends and family. If you've engaged in high risk behaviors, get tested for HIV and most importantly, support those living with HIV and AIDS with your compassion and understanding ..

Why Get tested...



HIV testing is integral to HIV prevention, treatment, and care efforts. Knowledge of one’s HIV status is important for preventing the spread of disease. Testing provides an opportunity for people to receive counseling and information about risk reduction, and many who learn they are HIV positive modify their behavior to reduce the risk of HIV
transmission. Early knowledge of HIV status is also important for linking those who are HIV positive to medical care and services that can reduce morbidity and mortality and improve quality of life.

In August 2008, CDC published the first national HIV incidence (new infections) estimates using new technology and methodology that more directly measure the number of new HIV infections in the United States. The first analyses, published in the August 6, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), showed that in 2006, an estimated 56,300 new HIV infections occurred - a number that is substantially higher than the previous estimate of 40,000 annual new infections.

According to the CDC,
HIV Prevention in the US
is at a Critical Crossroad


***The entire report - -

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- "Support World AIDS Day" - official site "RESPECT AND PROTECT "..


- - AIDS . GOV in the U.S.

- Kid's Health . ORG's HIV/Aids education page ** !!

-'AVERT' is a U.K. Based HIV/AIDS charity & very global view !!**



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nice pic and good information :-)
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-->> Thank you, Deni !!
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Lets find a cure.
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A World AIDS Day event at Port Bell, Kampala, Uganda

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A World AIDS Day event at Port Bell, Kampala, Uganda.

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Voices on World AIDS Day

The European Union, in a message on December 1, World AIDS Day, called for harder work in responding to HIV-AIDS.

The EU said it was urging a further strengthening "of the response to HIV-AIDS, at national and international levels, by all partners, private, public, civil society and international organisations taking into account the need for a broader participation by all stakeholders in partner countries".

"The forthcoming World AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010 will be an important opportunity in our common endeavour to achieve this aim," the EU said.

The EU said that HIV-AIDS continued to pose a threat to development and the lives, health and well-being of individuals, in particular of women and children.

"There is therefore a need to integrate HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) into policies and programmes, at local, regional and international levels.

"The promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women in particular to be able to say no to unsafe sex and protect themselves from infections is crucial," the EU said.

There was an overall need for support in strengthening health systems, including local, public, private and community-based health services, and for long-term effective initiatives to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care by 2010 and the health-related Millennium Development Goal targets by 2015.

A media statement by the Global Fund quoted Carla Bruni-Sarkozy as welcoming the success of the Fund in helping to extend treatment for HIV to millions of people, and she renewed a call to eliminate the transmission of HIV from mothers to their children by 2015.

In a series of media interviews scheduled to run on World AIDS Day, Bruni-Sarkozy also said that her role as the Global Fund’s ambassador for the protection of mothers and children against AIDS made it possible to raise the profile of the Global Fund and its work.

"It’s about talking about and letting the world know that a woman who is expecting a child can make sure that this child can have a healthy life," Bruni-Sarkozy told the BBC.
Bruni-Sarkozy agreed on World AIDS Day 2008 to become an ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, "giving a voice on the global stage for the many mothers and children infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS and drawing attention to the need to give pregnant women and their children the means to prevent HIV infection and to fight the disease," the media statement said.

Eric Goosby, the United States global AIDS co-ordinator, said that World AIDS Day was "an occasion to reflect on how far we have come in the fight against this epidemic, but also to remind ourselves of the important work we have yet to do in preventing and treating HIV".

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that the 2012 International AIDS Conference will be held in Washington, DC.

"This momentous event is made possible by the (Obama) administration’s recent lifting of the entry ban for HIV-positive travellers to the US," Goosby said.

The full removal of the ban takes effect on January 4 2010.

Goosby said that the entry ban was originally put into effect in 1987 "when there was little information on how HIV is spread", and it was then codified by the US congress.

"Even after scientists had long proved that HIV/AIDS was not spread through casual contact with a person living with HIV, the entry ban remained in place. Only a handful of countries worldwide prohibit HIV-positive travellers from crossing their borders, and the US has been the only Western country to uphold this discriminatory policy," Goosby said.

Last year, the US congress repealed the law mandating the travel ban, and the Obama administration was able to remove the remaining regulatory barriers.

Hosting the International AIDS Conference in the United States is an important opportunity for the US, Goosby said.

The event draws scientists, policy makers, program officials, HIV-positive individuals and others from all over the world. As the largest conference of its type, the International AIDS Conference attracts more than 25 000 participants.

"Welcoming conference attendees to our nation’s capital will allow America to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to ending the HIV pandemic both in the US and around the world," Goosby said.

He said that by 2012, the US would have a National HIV/AIDS Strategy in place for the first time.

"We expect to have made new strides by then to better co-ordinate HIV prevention and care services across the US government, as well as to reduce HIV/AIDS disparities," he said.

In Bulgaria, local news agency Focus said that the Ministry of Health and the government’s anti-AIDS programme had arranged anonymous testing for AIDS in several cities and towns.

In the capital city, Sofia, a mobile team from the AIDS National Laboratory was to be in front of Sofia University, and a team would be outside the Medical University from 11am to 4pm.

On December 1, Bulgarian singer Kotseto Kalki was holding an Anti AIDS karaoke party in Fans club in the capital.

In Blagoevgrad, students from the South West University, American University and pupils were scheduled to hold a procession forming a red ribbon - the symbol of AIDS awareness.

In Bourgas, an official opening of an exhibition of photos and reading of essays devoted to December 1 was scheduled to be held at the Youth Culture Centre.

More information on HIV:

http://www.who.int/topics/hiv_aids/en/

http://www.worldaidsday.org/factsandstats/the-basics.aspx

http://aidsspace.org/home.php