world aids day

(MedPage Today) -- World AIDS Day was marked by increasing confidence that tools needed to halt the devastating pandemic are either available or will soon be ready but also by fear that the will to use those tools is lacking.

President Barack Obama today announced accelerated efforts to increase the availability of treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States in conjunction with World AIDS Day 2011.  The president directed the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to invest approximately $50 million in new funding to support AIDS Drug Assistance Programs in states and increase access to HIV/AIDS care services.

For this Bronx mom, the fact that she’s still here - 22 years after she was diagnosed with AIDS - is a source of constant amazement.

So on Thursday, when New York and the nation mark World AIDS Day, Gonzalez will remember all the friends who died of the dread disease.

On December 1, World AIDS Day, we will pause to reflect on the HIV epidemic in our country and around the world.

In the U.S., an estimated 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV ─ and one out of five does not know it.

Worldwide, there are an estimated 33 million individuals with HIV.

On Tuesday, World AIDS Day, a 1,200-square-foot section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at George Mason University in Fairfax County.

Today, Decemeber 1st, 2008, is the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day.

Much has been accomplished in the past twenty years, but with an estimated 33 million people currently infected with the deadly disease, there is much still to be done.

While education and prevention are the principle weapons in combating AIDS, equally important are the efforts to neutralize the cause of the disease, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

LONDON (AP) -- As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs....

AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. By killing or damaging cells of the body's immune system, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers.

These infections are caused by viruses or bacteria that usually do not make healthy people sick.

World AIDS Day offers all of us an important opportunity to reflect on one of the most important health challenges of our day.

AIDS is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, having claimed more than 25 million lives worldwide, while an estimated 33.2 million people are living with HIV today.