What do you know about HIV/AIDS?
According to UNAIDS.com estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children.
10 Facts about HIV/AIDS...Did you know:
1. You cannot get HIV from shaking hands or hugging a person with HIV/AIDS.
2. You cannot get HIV from using a public telephone, drinking fountain, restroom, swimming pool, Jacuzzi, or hot tub.
3. You cannot get HIV from sharing a drink.
4. You cannot get HIV from being coughed or sneezed on by a person with HIV/AIDS.
5. You cannot get HIV from giving blood.
6. You cannot get HIV from a mosquito bite.
7. There are approximately 33.2 million people living with HIV, including about 2.5 children.
8. Half of all children living with HIV will die before their second birthday.
9. It takes about 14-weeks for HIV to incubate in the body. This means it can go undetected for over 3 months.
10. When AIDS was first "discovered" it was called GRIDS (Gay-related-immunodeficiency-syndrome) because it was thought to occur mostly in homosexual men... but (THANKFULLY) the disease was renamed somewhere between 1982 and 1984 when scientists realized that the disease does not discriminate between humans.
http://www.aids.gov/basic/101/index.html
Educate yourself and find out what you can do to help fight this global epidemic.
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Also - You cannot "catch" AIDS or HIV from using the same restroom, or chair as an HIV positive person.
Elton John Rewrote "Candle In The Wind" for Ryan White, upon hearing the news of his passing.
Born in 1971, Ryan White became the poster child for HIV/AIDS in 1985, a year or so after being diagnosed during a partial lung removal due to a severe bout with Pneumonia.
He had contracted HIV unknowingly when he was being given Factor VIII infusions to battle his hemophilia.
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