The Global AIDS Day event is commemorated on the first Saturday in June. The next Global AIDS Day will be held on June 2^nd, 2007. During the last Global AIDS Day over 40 nations shared a common interest with us to change the course of AIDS.

Strategically placed, Global AIDS Day is scheduled 6 months after World AIDS Day, December 1, in hopes that it will help keep the momentum of global AIDS-awareness going all year and push global action farther than just a one-day event.

Over 90% of the world’s AIDS infection happens right now in Sub Sahara Africa where the Christian Church already has a strong presence. But to a large degree the Church is still completely ignorant about how AIDS is spread, or about how to participate with society to control it. More importantly, that this disease is completely preventable and is spread from one sector of society to the next much like a falling out-of-control line of dominos.

Experts predict that unless something is done collectively AIDS will continue to grow and infect over 100 million people by the year 2010. Today one in one-hundred people are infected with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS. Clearly something is not working as it should. AIDS will kill more people this decade than all the wars and disasters in the past 50 years combined. The Red Cross/Red Crescent

At the International AIDS Conference in Toronto Canada, 2006 an interesting turn in events came which surprised many. With so much emphasis being placed on treatment the real star of the meeting was prevention -- which long took the back seat to treatment imperatives to save lives. Now, for the first time in memory, delegates here stopped squabbling over treatment vs. prevention, and began to speak of the two as indivisible parts of a total epidemic response. Behind this is a growing consensus that without prevention, the world can't afford to treat the epidemic affecting 40 million and growing by 4 million new infections a year.

AIDS affects each and every one of us one way or another.

Please plan to join us on June 2, 2007 for Global AIDS Day

For more information about Global AIDS Day visit our web site at:

www.GlobalAidsDay.org

Dr. Paul J. Caratti

The Orphans of AIDS

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