December 1 is world AIDS Day.

This day has been marked as World AIDS Day since 1988. It is designed to bring attention to the AIDS pandemic. I did learn some that from the website, that United Nation says that in 2007 there are more than 33 million people world wide that are living with HIV or AIDS.  I guess the old saying to wait until you are married comes into play.  Here is where we should be ashamed, is that there are 2 million children under the age of 15 with AIDS-HIV.  The focus here should be to keep adults from passing this disease down to children.  This is what I think we should focus on.  One amazing fact that I found was that out of the 300 million Americans, only, only 1 million Americans are currently living with HIV-AIDS.  A very small number.

This coming October 15 will mark the second year that bloggers around the world will take to action and discuss poverty on the internets second annual Blog Action Day. All blog posts are done for free to raise awareness for the non-profit event. This event that began last year in 2007, is a way for us blog publishers to increase awareness and create a global discussion about poverty.

As is with last year, bloggers will publish at least one blog post, podcast or video about poverty in the world.

Day Wednesday October 15, 2008.

The main partners/sponsers for Blog Action Day 2008 are the folks of TheGlobalFund.org and Kiva.org.

Register for free at http://blogactionday.org