World AIDS Day - December 1, 2007

December 1st is World AIDS Day. Established by the World Health Organization in 1988, World AIDS Day serves to focus global attention on the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Observance of this day provides an opportunity for governments, national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations and individuals to demonstrate the importance of the fight against HIV/AIDS.

With an estimated 38.6 million people worldwide living with HIV at the end of 2005, and more than 25 million people having died of AIDS since 1981, December 1st serves to remind everyone that action makes a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

For information and materials, you can visit the AIDS awareness Web site and download materials, such as fact sheets that provide HIV/AIDS statistics and the new World AIDS Day poster, to assist in your efforts to educate, motivate and mobilize your local community in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Useful information is also available on the CRS website: see http://crs.org/worldaidsday/

To view the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), please visit http://www.pepfar.gov/.
For international events, go to http://www.worldaidscampaign.info/ .