Today is World AIDS day. AIDS is the acronym for autoimmune immunodeficiency syndrome. The day of observance started Dec. 1, 1988.
The goal of World AIDS Day is to raise money, increase awareness, fight prejudice and improve education. The World AIDS Day theme for this year is Universal Access and Human Rights. World AIDS Day serves to remind people HIV has not gone away, there are many things still to be done before AIDS is eradicated.
According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.3 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2009 some 2.6 million people became newly infected with the virus and an estimated 1.8 million people died from AIDS.
The vast majority of people with HIV and AIDS live in lower- and middle-income countries. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.
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