On Healthy Living

You probably know it’s World AIDS Day today, the one daya a year the media pays much attention to this disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate about 400,000 Americans are currently living with AIDS, and it’s thought that 40 million people worldwide have the diesase, while 20 million have died from it.

People with AIDS are living longer than ever before because of drugs that slow the process of the disease. Of course there’s a huge discrepancy between the availabiltiy of and the need for these drugs in third world countries, and AIDS is causing huge problems in Africa, where more than 7 percent of people have the disease (compared to 0.5 percent in America).

To learn more about HIV, AIDS and World AIDS Day, visit World AIDS Day. And wear that red ribbon proudly!

Sarah White wrote this on December 1st, 2005 and filed it under Healthy Living |