FOCUS ON...WORLD AIDS DAY

Today we celebrate the 22nd annual World AIDS Day, a day when we recognize those who have died from the disease and those who continue to live with it. The World Health Organization started the day in 1988. Through the efforts to keep a focus on the disease, it is no longer the inevitable death sentence it once was.

Here is more on what the day means and the progress that has been made in combating the disease:

1. Resource: AIDS.gov. [US Government]
2. The History of World AIDS Day. [MyFOX - Orlando]
3. Hillary Rodham Clinton: World AIDS Day 2010. [US Department Of State]

4. Happy World AIDS Day. [The Washington Post]
5. Fragile progress is reason for optimism on World AIDS Day. [The Vancouver Sun]
6. World Aids Day: Keeping it on the agenda all year round. [Guardian - UK]