Little Known Facts About AIDS
AIDS or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, is the scariest, most powerful disease ever to weaken human resistance towards diseases. Eventually, it leads to death.
Since 1981 the cases of HIV infection were found, the number of HIV infectious persons had shown a tremendous increase, and within a short period of 20 years, the AIDs epidemic has raged across the globe. It was reported that people who died of HIV has attained the figure of 30 million on November 29, 2007. China itself has more than 770,000 HIV infected people. In the record of the world’s HIV infected persons, children who died on the cause of HIV was 640,000. In the United States, approximately 40,000 people were infected with HIV in 2003. In 1999 alone, 17,200 people in the United States died of AIDS, while in 2000, 15,300 HIV infected people have lost their lives. The officials from the United States Centre for Disease Control and Protection said that among the 900,000 HIV carriers in 2002, one fourth of them did not receive any treatments, and this means that more than 400,000 people in the United States were living with AIDS through sexual contact, sharing drug injection syringes, and some through the channels of HIV transmission.
Up to now, there is no cure for this deadly disease and thus HIV is always gained worldwide attention. In January, 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO) met in London with a participation of 140 countries to announce every first of December as the World’s AIDS Day. In January, 1996, the United Nations AIDS Programmes (UNAIDS) was established in Geneva, and later the UNAIDS renamed “World’s AIDS Day” as “World AIDS Campaign” to publicize AIDS prevention throughout the year. This day is important to alert people to control their personal desires via sexual intercourse, appreciate their lives besides educating people about the scariest facts of HIV. Red ribbon is a symbol for the World’s AIDS Day.
Themes of the World’s AIDS Day from the year of 1988 to 2007
1988: Join the Worldwide Effort
1989: Our Lives, Our World-Lets Take Care of Each Other
1990: Women and AIDS
1991: Sharing the Challenge
1992: A Community Commitment
1993: Time to Act
1994: AIDS and the Family
1995: Shared Rights, Shared Responsibilities
1996: One World. One Hope
1997: Children Living in a World with AIDS
1998: Force for Change: World AIDS Campaign with Young People
1999: Listen, Learn, Live!
2000: Men Make a Difference
2001: I Care. Do You?
2002: Live, Let Live
2003: Live, Let Live
2004: Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS.
2005: Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.
2006: Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.
2007: Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise
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valli | Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
It made me so sad that innocent new born babies and school children are the victims of this terrible disease.
b. radley | Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
wow, chen, this is very powerful. Well researched. Thanks for bringing our attention to such a tragic disease.
IcyCucky | Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
So sad…Some pictures are just hard to look at too..
Chan, what a remarkable article.
Judy Sheldon | Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
Chan, you have done a brilliant job at bringing this topic more coverage. The more we know the better armed we are. Take care.
Darlene McFarlane | Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
Chan, this is a very well done article. It is well researched and precise. We need more articles such as this, there are still so many people who don’t know much about the disease.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Anne Lyken-Garner | Feb 21, 2008 | Reply
These pictures are very disturbing.
agustina | Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
hiv/aids are verry commen ilnes be careful and use a condom. im doing a project for school that is to help people see hiv/aids are bad ples be carful!
Ronesha | Apr 28, 2008 | Reply
oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mirna | May 8, 2008 | Reply
Ohhhhhh God!!!:(
tenzin | Jun 19, 2008 | Reply
god….by seeing this pics..thing i fear the most is aids…
people be careful n treat aids patient normally…they should’t feel that they r hopeless…atleast show some sort of love to them…who knows we mite get into their place
gjbaan | Mar 8, 2009 | Reply
HIV does not kill…Aids does!
I am hiv+ and yes not very easy at times but i am fortunate enough to be in teh UK and am able to receive meds when i need to ( tonorrow my 1st day, after being diagnosed for 3.5 yrs) anew chapet. Som eof my poems are spiritual. they stem from when i was all mellencholly and spiritual.
have a read.
Trey | Apr 26, 2009 | Reply
AIDS does not kill, it is just when you have no more CD4 or T Helper cells to help fight off infections which means the infection will kill you. AIDS is just HIV when you have no more immune system.
DB | Jul 12, 2009 | Reply
WOW!!! now i know what i may be dealing with……wish me luck!!!
jean matthews | Aug 12, 2009 | Reply
just looking at the pictures, i realize how blessed we are that have a portion of our health and strength we should be so grateful to god, there are many people everyday dying & suffering i wish i could wipe away their tears & pain today, all i can say is we can hope and pray for a better day tommorow whether it may be here on earth or after life, i want them all to know that god loves them, and if we all would except jesus into our lives there will be a better tommorow, and that’s a guarantee!
p mcguire | Sep 6, 2009 | Reply
my husband had hiv for 16 years, now 3 months ago do to drug abuse now has the aids virus, has gone blind and is drifting away from me very fast, he is living in a state penetentury and cant think for his self, feed his self , and recently had a stroke, so now is in a wheel chair, i pray that god touches the lives of all the victoms and their families who suffer from this terrible virus named aids
thokozani d | Dec 5, 2009 | Reply
To all those with the virus, do not think that this is the end for you, you still have a long way in life. To those who are not infected, you are definetely affected. The world is one so lets be there for our friends and family. lets practice safer sex, abstainance, be faithful to one sexual partner. Only then can we be free from this cruel HIV/AIDS. God loves us all…..
vineeth thomas jacob | Dec 11, 2009 | Reply
trust in god and do what is good… and life will be good..
IAIN | Dec 13, 2009 | Reply
Hope is still here..I have been kiving with both Aids and now Hiv for 23years,PLEASE KEEP THE HOPE ALIVE FOR A CURE..;)
Ann Ndege | Jan 7, 2010 | Reply
Thanks alot for opening our eyes and making us learn how to deal with this dreadful diseases,and for the ones who are living+ never loose hope in life,you can still live if you wish to.
Lesego | Sep 13, 2010 | Reply
If a baby is hiv positive, how did it get it? as it doesn’t even have sex.
David | Jan 27, 2011 | Reply
Back to school for you.