World AIDS Day 19

World AIDS Day 19: "This is World AIDS Day. The first was in 1988. 'Silence is death,' Kofi Annan says. 'This year alone, well over four million people were newly infected and nearly three million people died of the disease.'

-Africa not faring well, UN official says. Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise.

-AIDS is a leading cause of death for African Americans, who accounted for nearly half of newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases last year, even though they are only 12 percent of the population. African Americans accounted for 66 percent of women with AIDS in 2005 and 67 percent of children under 13 with AIDS."

(Via Martini Republic.)