World AIDS Day: "Getting to Zero"

December 1st is World AIDS Day and it is the 30th anniversay of AIDS. This year's theme is "Getting to Zero." That's zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. For those living with the disease, that's their mission, all year round.

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Cities Turn (RED) For WORLD AIDS DAY

December 1st is World AIDS Day and this year's theme  is 'Universal Access and Human Rights'. The world is coming together to raise awareness of the goal of an AIDS Free Generation due in 2015. Last year nearly half a million babies were born with HIV.
Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education.

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South Africa's Desmond Tutu Announces Retirement

Courtesy petermartinart.co.uk

On October 7th 2010, his 79th birthday South African anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu will retire from public life.

His announcement came yesterday at St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa. "Instead of growing old gracefully with my family, reading and writing and praying and thinking, too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels." 

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