In honor of Worlds AIDS Day, here are a couple of interesting websites. To show your support, please look into local WAD activities going on in your area on and around December 1st. And if you do not have time to attend an event, pin a red ribbon to your shirt and do some research on what HIV looks like around the world.
This first website talks about the status of HIV here in Nicaragua. The most interesting and terrifying part about the number of cases here (and around the world) is that MINSA reports 3,602 confirmed cases of HIV while World Health Organization and USAID report 7,700. That means that there are about 4,098 people here in Nicaragua not knowing that they have HIV. This is why getting tested is so incredibly important. The embarrassment and overall fear of getting tested has decreased somewhat, but it is definitely still an issue.
This second website is a clock that keeps count of the people in the world living with HIV. Their stats show that every 12 seconds another person in the world contracts HIV and that every 16 seconds another person in the world dies from AIDS. I first looked at this page at 10:52 am on Tuesday Nov. 29th and the count was at 37,631,520. What does it say now as you are reading it?
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