Each year HIV and Aids organisations Worldwide get to highlight and raise awareness on December 1st.
For me it is a day of conflicting emotions.
I have lost too many dear beautiful friends to this pandemic, I have experienced the anger, hatred and fear focused on those friends too.
But, I also thankfully have many friends living healthy lives, in thanks to the advancement of antiretroviral drugs. This then is such a cause for celebration. And so the day for me is bittersweet.
The theme for World AIDS Day 2007 and 2008 is “leadership”. This theme will continue to be promoted with the campaigning slogan, “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.”
‘Leadership was selected as the theme for World AIDS Day to encourage leaders at all levels to stop AIDS. Building on the 2006 theme of accountability, leadership highlights the discrepancy between the commitments that have been made to halt the spread of AIDS, and actions taken to follow them through. The theme empowers everyone from individuals to organisations to governments to lead in the response to AIDS’.
(from the World Aids Campain website).
There are many sites where you can get information on the web,
Ive included a link for the THT, a charity that is very dear to me and one I volunteered for in the early days when there were so few place’s to turn.
http://www.tht.org.uk/howyoucanhelpus/worldaidsday/
