WORLD AIDS DAY. Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. The World AIDS Day theme for 2009 is "Universal Access and Human Rights". World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done. According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.4 million people living with HIV, including 2.1 million children. During 2008 some 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus and an estimated 2 million people died from AIDS. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.2 The vast majority of people with HIV and AIDS live in lower and middle income countries. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.
WORLD AIDS DAY, artwork by
Graziano Origa, pen&ink + pantone, 20X46, framed for Nòva100, 2009.
«Aids, 7 infettati: Italia condannata:
Sentenza della Corte di Strasburgo
Sette cittadini italiani in seguito a una trasfusione di sangue sono stati infettati, così come i loro familiari, dal virus dell'Hiv o dell'epatite C. La Corte europea dei diritti dell'uomo di Strasburgo ha così condannato l'Italia a pagare 156mila euro per danni morali. La Corte ha stabilito che le autorità italiane hanno violato il diritto alla vita dei pazienti, ora malati di Aids, e il diritto a non essere discriminati»
