World AIDS Day

Should there be a World AIDS Day?

In 2020 we will hold our last World AIDS Day. We will remember when AIDS was an epidemic, and explain to our children how Canadians usd their skills, resources and money to rid the world of AIDS.

We will rename the day "World Health Day" or "Remembering Canadians who conquored AIDS Day" or even "Thank God that you finally decided to rid the world of AIDS Day"

That's right - we are waiting for you to decide to act - to see - to plan - to give - to imagine a world without AIDS by 2020.

That is what I call perfect vision. 2020

"It's a numbers game"

Every day, nearly 7,500 people become infected with HIV and 5,500 die
from AIDS, mostly due to a lack of HIV prevention and treatment services.

Despite these staggering numbers, some encouraging developments have
sparked small victories in the battle against AIDS.

Thanks to improvements in prevention programmes, the number of people
newly infected with HIV declined from 3 million in 2001 to 2.7 million in
2007.

With the expansion of antiretroviral treatment services, the
number of people who die from AIDS has started to decline, from 2.2
million in 2005 to 2.0 million in 2007.

However, largely because newly infected people survive longer, the number of people living with HIV rose
from an estimated 29.5 million in 2001 to 33 million in 2007. The vast
majority of those living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.