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Dec. 1st, 2010 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccI walked into the lab and there was a film crew doing a piece to camera. Oh yeah, that's right - it's World AIDS Day today.
So for the over 25 million people who have died of AIDS to date, the roughly 33.2 million people world-wide who are HIV positive, for the estimated 2.5 million new people who will become infected in the next year, and for their families, friends and communities I'm wearing a red ribbon today.
We can slow the pandemic. We can provide the necessary treatments, whether you are in the first or the third world. We can turn this around.
So for the over 25 million people who have died of AIDS to date, the roughly 33.2 million people world-wide who are HIV positive, for the estimated 2.5 million new people who will become infected in the next year, and for their families, friends and communities I'm wearing a red ribbon today.
We can slow the pandemic. We can provide the necessary treatments, whether you are in the first or the third world. We can turn this around.
