World AIDS Day: Today!
Posted on December 1st, 2007 | by Billifer | AIDS, charity, HIV, World AIDS Day
Today and every December 1st marks World AIDS Day throughout the world. All of us are (or should be) aware of the epidemic that AIDS and HIV are not only in our own communities but in other nations and places around the world.
But World AIDS Day is more than awareness. All the awareness in the world does not solve the problem. We need a cure, and we need it now. The world has lived with AIDS for over 25 years—and over 25 million people have died because we can’t find a cure. It will take the effort of all of us to eradicate this plague from our existence, just as our forefathers and mothers made smallpox a chapter in the book of medical history.
We can do it. But it takes awareness, dedication, compassion, and resolve. Let us hope that, through the efforts of donations, volunteerism, and perseverance, this will be the last World AIDS Day we commemorate without a cure. ⌘
