It’s World Aid day -and is it me or has Aids/HIV ceased to be news? Yet millions of the worlds population are HIV positive or living with Aids, from babies to adults, male, female, gay, straight, black, white. Millions are dying or suffering. Across Africa millions are orphaned, homeless or starve as a result.

Aids is the disease that cursed the 1980′s and 90′s and ravaged Africa. And we must not forget the millions worldwide that have circumbed to this terrible wasting disease. We must also not forget the millions neglected of crucial anti-virul drugs in Africa, because it wasn’t either accepted as a problem or the drug companies weren’t prepared to compromise their profits.

So on World Aids Day 2009 remember: 

• 40 million people live with HIV/AIDS worldwide.

• 12 million children have been orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS.

• There were 4.3 million new HIV infections in 2006 and 2.9 million AIDS-related deaths.

Aids is still with us, It is still killing, It still needs fighting as much as ever.

Support Aids/HIV charities:

Terence Higgins Trust www.tht.org.uk 

George House Trust  www.ght.org.uk