Today is World AIDS Day

[thatcrazycajun]

My Songbird has asked me to remind you all that today is World AIDS Day. As she is currently one of those gainfully employed in the worldwide battle against HIV/AIDS (especially in Africa, where its toll boggles the mind), this is a matter of both personal and professional concern to her...and to me, as well.

The image at left is linked to the World AIDS Campaign's website, where you can find ways to help bring this global pandemic to a swifter end—including motivating our political leaders to do more. If you don't find anything to your taste there, look up what events around the day are happening in your corner of the world and consider participating in some fashion. Even a small donation to your local AIDS hospice or activist group would be more than sufficient.

To paraphrase an AIDS Walk ad in a Philaldelphia newspaper years ago, which SB used to keep on her fridge door: "25 years. 25 million dead. 4.3 million more infected last year alone. Still no cure. What part of AIDS do you think is 'over'? Your part?"