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Our Motto: Individually we are all powerful. Together we can change the world. We believe in the power of collective action to help others and believe in ourselves to make this world a better place for our children and the world’s children.
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Globally it is estimated that 34 million are infected with HIV and just from the period of 1981 to 2007, an alarming 25 million have died from the virus making it known as the most destructive pandemics of all time. With the advancement in science and technology, new methods are being studied and developed to alleviate the different conditions of the disease. Furthermore, research is still ongoing so as to find cure for the virus. (via December 1 : World AIDS Day » My Charmed Mom)
“I started out just a mom fighting for the life of her child.” – Elizabeth Glaser (1947-1994)
Photo Credit: Mia Collis, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Today, the global community has united in observing the World AIDS Day with a renewed commitment to getting to …
Today is World AIDS Day. It is the 24th World AIDS day. I can hardly believe how long AIDS has now been a part of our world. We have a long way to go to prevent AIDS, but there are things we can do. (via Crazy Casa K: World AIDS Day)
Through Noonday Collection, I learned about Beza Entonto Outreach which provides holistic opportunities for people from the Entoto community (a largely HIV+ community on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) to change their situations by offering job training, medical support, supplemental dietary support, teaching, and counseling for the adults in the program. For the children, it provides educational support, supplemental dietary support, and morals and values teachings. You can take a look at some of the beautiful jewelry they make as part of job training at my Noonday site. All fairly traded, and hand-made from melted down bullets and artillery casings. (my favorite? It’s a toss up between these earrings and this necklace.)
Did you know that more than 33.3 million people around the globe are living with HIV? Or that more than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007 have died from the virus? Did you know that 50% of people living with HIV are women?
HIV and AIDS seems to have disappeared from the media, but awareness is still important. This is why World Aids Day has been celebrated on December 1st since 1988.
The impact of AIDS over the last twenty years has been devastating in many ways. It is estimated that over nearly 30 million people have died from AIDS-related causes since the beginning of the epidemic (UNAID 2010 report).
(via Reflecting on the impact of AIDS: Meet Esther. | Thirdeyemom)
Many years have passed since AIDS awareness started to come to fruition.
As a world we are more educated.
We know how to protect ourselves. We know how it’s spread. We know how it’s not spread.
What about those that don’t even have a choice? Who?
Little children.
Today, and every day, 900 children are infected with HIV. Every day.
We know that 90% of child infections are spread from mother to child. This is preventable.
(via Perfectly Random Thoughts From an Imperfect, Crabby Mama: World Aids Day—Don’t Forget the Children)
If you’d like to do something….I mean really do something, I’m going to give you an easy way to get involved. Go to A Mother’s Fight to help end pediatric AIDS. 90% of child infections are due to transmission from mother to child. Let’s end pediatric AIDS in our generation by donating to help mothers receive testing and treatment. Your donation WILL save lives. Join the fight today.
(via On This World AIDS Day, Fight to End Pediatric AIDS | Hike. Blog. Love.)
World AIDS Day is on Saturday December 1st – it’s a day that should give many of us moms, a reason to pause. As we sleep comfortably in our beds at night, our children sleeping sound in the next room, a mother is comforting her HIV-infected child. I don’t sympathize, I empathize. Imagine yourself in her shoes. I can. And maybe because I’m dealing with my child’s own immunity issues, is the reason I can. It’s also the reason why I will give.
