#FightHIV – Together We Can Win

Posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street on April 15, 2013 in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

AIDS loses when we all know how it spreads and how to stop it. Use Twitter and Facebook to share these key facts.

Every 9.5 minutes, someone in the U.S. becomes infected with #HIV. 1/5 don’t know. Get tested. #AIDSWillLose

Click to access hiv_prev_us.pdf

1/2 of 34 million ppl living with #HIV are women and girls. Mothers need to take special care w/ their babies. #AIDSWillLose

W/ interventions mothers can help prevent #HIV trans to child en utero, in childbirth & childhood:
http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/mtct/en/

Sex is the No. 1 cause of #HIV transmission in the world. Protect yourself. #AIDSWillLose
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/transmission.htm

#HIV is the strongest risk factor in developing active #TB disease. In 2010, 1/5 #HIV deaths due to #TB via: @WHO.
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/hiv/facts/en/index8.html