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World AIDS Day-2008

In AIDS, Disease, Health, Health Information, Health Promotion, WHO on November 30, 2008 at 7:19 pm

December 01, 2008: Is World AIDS Day

To raise awareness about HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in countries where there is a high prevalence of the disease. 

  • 33.2 million people are living with aids
  • 2.5 milion were  infected in 2007
  • 2.1 million died  in 2007
  • Almost 1/3 of all new infections and deaths worldwide are in Africa.

World Health Organization has produced a document ‘Priority Interventions: HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector.

You can download the complete document here. It includes the latest treatment, guidelines and standard. It is designed to assist countries and stakeholders in responding to this major health care challenge.

Get Involved For teachers and students- A 1 hour educational activity is planned. Teachers and students are encouraged to spend one hour talking about AIDS on December 01

Clinical Trials Information is available free to the public

www.worldaidscampaign.org

Supporter of World AIDS Day: www.superhealthe.com

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  2. [...] WellingDigital’s Weblog provides educational resources as well as statistics at World AIDS Day-2008 [...]

  3. Thank you ‘Wonderful Web for viewing my AIDS Day post. I actuallly did two posts: One was the regular WHO celebration which is what my blog is about.
    The other is a report on a recent study on treatments. I wanted to communicate this as well.