Today is World AIDS Day, a day of international awareness for the global battle that the UNICEF charity continues to fight on a daily basis. Held every year on the 1st December for the last 11 years, this year’s World AIDS Day theme is ‘human rights and access to treatment’, a call to all countries to to remove laws that discriminate against people living with HIV.
Every minute two young people are infected with HIV. Every two minutes a child dies of AIDS.
HIV is becoming increasingly a disease of the young, especially girls. Yet with more education and medicine, HIV is both preventable and treatable. Over a quarter of a million children under the age of 15 died because of AIDS in 2007, yet despite this, worse may yet be to come. UNICEF’s Campaign Against AIDS aims to –
- prevent new infections among children and young people
- prevent mother-to-child transmission
- provide treatment for children living with the virus
- provide protection and support to those affected by HIV and AIDS
You can help provide care for those living in the shadow of HIV by purchasing a UNICEF Inspired Gift, who actually have a number of virtual presents that are tailor made to help fight the AIDS virus. A charity gift can provide life saving items to children and communities throughout the world…
so why not order an Inspired Gift fron UNICEF today, and help mark World AIDS Day by making a real difference?
