World Aids Day: We Can All Help

HIV is still an major health issue in underserved communities and countries. 

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has become one of the world’s most serious health and developmental challenges. In the United States alone, 1.7 million people are estimated to have the HIV virus. You think that number is big? According to http://www.aids.gov/, 33.4 million people are living with the HIV/AIDS virus globally with more than 25 million deaths resulting in the virus worldwide since the first reported cases in 1981. Educate yourself and your family about this epidemic, promote safe behavior, and consider volunteering some of your time toward helping those infected. Anyone can help by supporting and donating to a number of organizations dedicated to finding a cure. By banding together collectively, the human race can help preserve the lives of others.

AmfAR’s “Countdown to a Cure for AIDS” is a research initiative aimed at finding a broadly applicable cure for HIV by 2020. “Countdown to a Cure” is designed to intensify amfAR’s cure-focused HIV research program with plans to strategically invest $100 million in cure research over the next six years.   www.amFar.org