As Worldaidsday.org explains:
World AIDS Day is held on 1 December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and the first one was held in 1988.
Here is President Obama’s 2013 World AIDS Day proclamation.
Other worthwhile World AIDS Day reads: Bill Gates on successes in fighting AIDS in Africa, and Hugh Ryan’s Slate piece about the ongoing struggle to end HIV infection in the U.S.
I could spend the next hundred hours posting links to the singers and rappers and dancers and athletes and artists and activists taken from us by AIDS. For my featured selection, I’ll go with a popular fave. Thank you, Freddie Mercury.
