ACCKWA is my local AIDS and HIV organization. I have been volunteering in some aspect over the past 18 years. This time I am helping make a patch or two for an AIDS Memorial Quilt. It doesn't take long to make a patch but your compassion in doing so will have lasting effects to those living with AIDS and HIV. No longer the dark days when first referred to as GRID (Gay related immune Deficiency) We have become more educated; yet there is much more to learn and share. Following statistics are from
www.amfar.org :
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Statistics: Worldwide
- More than 34 million people now live with HIV/AIDS.
- 3.4 million of them are under the age of 15.
- In 2010, an estimated 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV.
- 390,000 were under the age of 15.
Every day more than 7,000 people contract HIV—nearly 300 every hour.
- In 2010, 1.8 million people died from AIDS.
- 250,000 of them were under the age of 15.
- Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 60 million people have contracted HIV and nearly 30 million have died of HIV-related causes.
Please help if you can. If you are out of the district in which ACCKWA serves please help in anyway you can. You may donate here
http://www.acckwa.com/en/?page_id=455 Any amount is greatly appreciated. Please pass this email along or retweet. Thank you for thinking of helping others
Joe Lethbridge
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