National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 3.10.2010

Ok, so I definitely have not been blogging regularly. But this topic is worth coming out of a grad school application hibernation. If you didn't know by now, March 10, 2010 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. HIV/AIDS is affecting women, and we need to be sure we have all of the facts instead of assuming and speculating. Folks over at The Red Pump Project have done a great job of getting out the facts about HIV/AIDS. I've taken some of those statistics and will share them here as well.

Folks over at Red Pump Project have a great campaign going on right now as well, 500 in 50. The purpose is to get 500 bloggers talking about HIV/AIDS by NWAGHAAD on March 10th. Be sure to show your support on Twitter with hashtag #500in50, as well as on your blogs and Facebook!!!

Here's some basic stats on HIV/AIDS that I pulled from The Red Pump Project website. Click here to get more facts about HIV/AIDS. Educate yourselves!!!

*Number of new HIV infections, 2006: 56,300
*Number of people living with HIV/AIDS: 1.1 million, including more than 468,000 with AIDS
*Number of AIDS deaths since beginning of epidemic: 583,298, including 14,561 in 2007
*Percent of people infected with HIV who don’t know it: 21%