Today worldwide attention is drawn to the AIDS problem during the 22nd World AIDS Day.
Currently, 39 million people are infected with the deadly virus, and someone dies from the disease every seven seconds. Of all these AIDS patients 90 percent live in developing countries.
Thanks to the attention for the disease, the number of people infected is stable for the first time in 25 years. There is more and more money so that better information and medicines can be given.
To help even more people during World AIDS Day events around the world. The biggest action in the Netherlands is on the Museumplein in Amsterdam. The square has been turned into a symbolic cemetery especially for today with five thousand white crosses, which bear the well-known red ribbons of the fight against AIDS. They symbolize the millions of Africans who die because they do not receive AIDS inhibitors.
To show that the battle is not over, Angela Groothuizen and the Dutch AIDS ambassador Marijke Wijnroks remove a few crosses from the square.
World AIDS Day is not the only day to fight against AIDS. Stop Aids Now! Organizes campaigns throughout the year to help as many people as possible. On the website you can read what you can do for AIDS patients.
For more information, see: www.stopaidsnow.nl >
