Light to Unite (merged with world AIDS day and quiz)

[Duncan]

As World AIDS Day approaches (Dec. 1), we are reminded that millions of people need our help with the AIDS pandemic, but we often think, "What can I do?"


Here is one simple way you can help, and it costs you nothing but a moment and a mouse click . . .


Bristol Myers will donate $1 for every person who goes to their web site and lights a candle to fight AIDS, up to a max of $100,000. At this point, the counter is just under 20,000...... so we need many more candles lit.


Please go to this link to light a candle...... and help spread the light.


https://www.lighttounite.org/ (https://www.lighttounite.org/)

[erzebet1961]

Thank you Duncan for posting such a wonderful link...as a person with a cousin with aids....it really means a lot !!

[junkhead]

thanks
i didnt even know about this

[txbarefooter]

Thanks for the link Duncan. I guess my click was counted. I clicked on the candle and then it was lit.
peace,
bob

[Samhain]

Have a think about what you can do to support this
are you aware of HIV and AIDS and what it all really means?
Do you have friends or relations who have HIV or do you have HIV yourself?

below is some useful links about World AIDS day

http://www.worldaidsday.org/default.asp

http://avert.org.uk/worldaid.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/awareness_campaigns/dec_worldaids.shtml

[Samhain]

Take this quiz and find out
http://www.avert.org/wadquiz.htm

[erzebet1961]

Wow...I scored 7 out of 10....a little better than I thought....but still...not quite good enough...I should be better informed on the subject.

[erzebet1961]

Thus far...Ive made blankets and donated them to the babies and children who are sick......but Im always looking for new things to do too

[txbarefooter]

crap, I got 8 outta 10. If you're as old as dirt like me, some of the questions are intuitive from having lived when it hit the news. Regardless this should open some eyes.

[Columbo]

8/10 but the only two I got wrong were - which year was the first world-aids-day?
and which year were doctors first aware of aids?

Do I win a prize?

[daysye]

i got 10/10....i honestly didn't know that i knew that much....i guess i did pay attention when i was in rehab

[CrazybutLazy]

I got a 9 out of 10.

[hippychickmommy]

I got a 9 out of 10 too.

[l-foote]

9/10 too.

[FreeSpirit91]

I got 9/10 also.

[LuckyStripe]

10 outta 10. All but two of those questions were a no brainer.

[J0hn]

Scored 6 out of 10.

[athena_skye]

8 out of 10. Even though it that would almost be considered "aceing" the test, it still doesn't make the disease any less creepy.

[Samhain]

8 out of 10. Even though it that would almost be considered "aceing" the test, it still doesn't make the disease any less creepy.
I have to comment on this, I think people that have 'HIV' and 'AIDS' may well be very hurt that you use the term creepy, through things like world AIDS day and things like quiz's the hope is that people will become more familiar with the illness and less frightened of it, in turn if we have less fear we can show more compassion, caring and understanding to people who are effected by this illness, wether that be people who have it or people who knows someone that has it.

have a think about what the word 'creepy' may conjure up and ask yourself how you would feel if you had an illness and heard it called creepy?

S

[TreeFiddy]

The GSA at my school is organizing this little ribbon-selling thing on that week, the ribbons cost like 5 bucks I think and everything earned goes to the World Aids Foundation...I think we're gonna be able to sell them by letting anyone who buys one get a DRESS DOWN DAY!!! (like...untucked shirt...)

Because sadly, people care more about that than AIDS...

[TreeFiddy]

9 out of 10

[daisymae]

My uncle died of AIDS in 1988 (I think)....I was a pallbearer and he had lost so much weight the coffin felt empty.

Last winter I went to a wake for a friend's son who was the same age as me...I didn't even know he was sick. :( A few months after that a guy I knew in high school died...

I have another uncle living with HIV, he is doing alright, the meds are working.

Yes, they were(are) all gay.

I wish everyone would protect themselves...:(

[Samhain]

My uncle died of AIDS in 1988 (I think)....I was a pallbearer and he had lost so much weight the coffin felt empty.

Last winter I went to a wake for a friend's son who was the same age as me...I didn't even know he was sick. :( A few months after that a guy I knew in high school died...

I have another uncle living with HIV, he is doing alright, the meds are working.

Yes, they were(are) all gay.

I wish everyone would protect themselves...:(
this is what this day about bringing knowedge about HIV to people that know little about it and what you have just said will help others- thankyou
S

[Mary Poppins]

My friend Williams Johnson died on October last year of AIDS which he got from having unprotected sex with a prostitue one night when he was drunk and cut up about his girlfriend leaving him. He fought a brave and dignified fight but threw away his ARV's in the end, as he knew it was over.

RIP Willy!!

[daisymae]

I am glad to share my story if it helps.

I would just like to point out that I clicked your pic to get here Samhain....advertising works ;)