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Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
Unfortunately a day late, but I wanted to make this photo as a small tribute to those infected...
Spread awareness!
Oh, and you should imagine the look on the face of the people who walked in on me on that toilet. Priceless!
World AIDS Day . Candlelight Vigil . Whitman Walker Clinic . Administrative Building . 1407 S Street, NW . WDC . 1 December 2005
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
WORLD AIDS DAY 1st December, 2011.
The year : 1981
Thirty years ago this month, I was a volunteer counsellor on a telephone help-line in Newcastle Upon Tyne UK, supporting people who were confused and concerned about their sexuality – and a newly emerging health problem – that of HTLV III infection. Today, we refer to it as HIV and AIDS. Six years later, in 1987, I moved to London and worked for a number of years supporting people diagnosed with HIV and AIDS. Education about HIV infection was piecemeal at best. People were dying both of the effects of the disease and educational ignorance of the disease. Many people volunteered a lot of precious time establishing quality support systems for people who had become infected.
Every year, without fail, I have remembered, in my own way, those whom I have known and who have died, both in the UK and in several other countries. Many were acquaintances, some were good friends and some were people to whom I was very close. I will particularly be remembering those people in the early days of the disease, who subjected themselves to new trial drugs given at high dosages in order to establish safe medication levels. Many people did not survive because of the high toxicity of these drugs on their already weakened bodies – yet, at the same time, these drugs were these peoples’ only hope for potential survival.
Medications for HIV infection have greatly improved over the past 30 years, to the point that HIV is now generally regarded as a chronic medical condition. Yet we still have high levels of infection rates in the UK which some believe is due to complacency and lack of willingness to be educated.
I still give support to a few people whom I still know, who are living with HIV and AIDS, and who occasionally are traumatised by the effects of their illnesses.
On this, my own personal 30th Anniversary of my involvement with HIV, my appeal is for people to acknowledge the work of the support and educational agencies, and on the 1st December 2011 to show publicly your support by wearing a Red Ribbon.
(Go to www.nat.org.uk/ - the website of the National AIDS Trust in the United Kingdom.)
Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
AHF commemorated World AIDS Day on Tuesday, December 1st at the ArcLight Hollywood Theater and celebrated reaching the milestone that AHF is providing lifesaving HIV/AIDS medical care and services to over 500,000 patients in 36 countries worldwide in the US, Europe, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia.
Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
World AIDS Day . Candlelight Vigil . Whitman Walker Clinic . Administrative Building . 1407 S Street, NW . WDC . 1 December 2005
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
World AIDS Day . Candlelight Vigil . Whitman Walker Clinic . Administrative Building . 1407 S Street, NW . WDC . 1 December 2005
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
World AIDS Day . Candlelight Vigil . Whitman Walker Clinic . Administrative Building . 1407 S Street, NW . WDC . 1 December 2005
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
U.S. Consul General Jennifer McIntyre joins actor Karthi and Dr. A.C. Mohandoss of TANSACS at the human chain event held to raise awareness on World AIDS Day on December 1, 2011 at Marina Beach. (Photo by U.S. Consulate General, Chennai)
Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
STOP AIDS. Keep the promise.
Cruel is the night
That covers up your fears.
Tender is the one
Who wipes away your tears.
There must be a bitter breeze
To make you sting so viciously-
They say the greatest cowards
Can hurt the most ferociously.
But I'll show you something good
Oh I'll show you something good.
If you open your heart
You can make a new start
When your crumbling world falls apart.
The miracle of love
Will take away your pain
When the miracle of love
Comes your way again.
Lennox/Stewart
World Aids Day launch at the Opera House by Governor General Quentin Bryce on Wednesday 30, November, 2011
Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
It's World AIDS Day
my heart goes out to the children in third world countries who
may or may not have the proper tools to fight it.
Children living with HIV/AIDS in 2009 are an estimated 2.1 million - world wide
Without antiretroviral treatment, 60-75% of children with HIV die before the age of five years. With effective antiretroviral treatment, this figure can be reduced below 20%.
Ms Wokie Cole, is HIV positive, and spoke to the media about stigma and taking care of herself being HIV positive and also having healthy children, during a press briefing launching the theme for this years World Aids Day "Getting to Zero" new infections, at UNMIL HQ, Wednesday 28 November, 2012.
UNMIL Photo/Staton Winter
About 30 pupils from Millburn Academy and Red Cross volunteers staged a flashmob at Eastgate shopping centre on Wednesday 1 December to mark World AIDS Day.
Governor General Quentin Bryce marked the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Tuesday 1 December) by visiting an ACON health promotion facility in Sydney for disadvantaged people with HIV.
Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.
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This is not my creative work, but rather is distributed by the World Aids Campaign. See their Web site for additional media.
DC Mayor Vincent Gray at the Whitman Walker Health 23rd Annual WORLD AIDS DAY Candlelight Vigil at Dupont Circle in NW Washington DC on Thursday evening, 1 December 2011 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Visit Whitman Walker Health at www.whitman-walker.org/
Visit World AIDS Day at www.worldaidsday.org/
Candles In The Wind Series