WORLD AIDS DAY IS DECEMBER 1! Rally your friends, neighbors and
colleagues to "Ditch Your Ride" for a day to remind the rest of your
community that AIDS is still an issue. Here's how:
- INVITE YOUR PEOPLE. Gather your circle of friends to watch the One Campaign's Lazarus Effect and discuss how access to healthcare can affect someone living with HIV/AIDS.
- DITCH YOUR RIDE. On Thursday, December 1, WORLD AIDS DAY, find
another way to get to work, to school, to your appointments. When your
boss, teacher, or doctor asks why you're late, take the opportunity to
remind them about World AIDS Day and universal access to ARVs.
- SHARE YOUR STORY. Tweet it (#ditchyourride), Facebook it, or Shoot
it and Upload it. (To help us find it, name your masterpieces "Ditched
My Ride for World AIDS Day"). With your own spin, share with us (and the
rest of your circle) how you did your part to remind your community
that AIDS is still an issue and universal access to healthcare by 2015
is still possible.
Get information about how SIM is dealing with access to healthcare and find other resources right
here.
SIM has ministered in the context of AIDS for over a decade through the
flagship initiative called HOPE for AIDS. HOPE for AIDS is a family of
more than 40 projects spanning 12 countries. Our vision is to build
capacity in local communities to empower them to deal with AIDS in the
most effective way in each culture. The majority of the work is done
through the remarkable time and commitment of the nearly 2,000 local
volunteers—a number which bears witness to the profound desire of
ordinary people to be the hands and feet and voice of Christ to
suffering neighbors.
So check out
HOPE for AIDS online and our
blog, find us on
Facebook and
Twitter (@hope4aids), and prepare to DITCH YOUR RIDE for one day!
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Today there is a focus on how AIDS has effected the world, what can be done to help and how severe is the situation. Many of us who have adopted children from Africa have had to face the AIDS epidemic first hand. Some of our kids are AIDS orphans, some are HIV +. Anti viral drugs are available and help those who can access them lead a relatively normal life. Education and awareness help prevent the spread. In Africa it is largely a heterosexual disease, directly effecting the nuclear family.
Here are two great resources that talk about the issues and what is being done.
SIM
Hope for AIDS
SIM
newsletter
Tom Davis' Red Letters blog
World AIDS day
Compassion International
Many lies one truth
World Aids Day
site . Want to learn more?
Go check it out. If you are moved to DO something, each of these has options for you.
Today I thank God my sons are alive and healthy. I think of their birth parents who died of AIDS. I pray for those who still have their birth parents and pray for wisdom in life choices for the men and women, protection for the women and children who don't get a choice.
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