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Worldwide AIDS Statistics<\/strong>
People newly infected with HIV in 2002: 5 million <\/strong>
AIDS deaths in 2002: 3 million … that’s over 8,000 deaths per day <\/strong>
Estimated number of people living with HIV\/AIDS at the end of 2002: 42 million <\/strong>
Total of AIDS deaths at the end of 2002: 28.1 million <\/strong>
Total number of AIDS orphans: 13.2 million <\/strong><\/p>\n

If AIDS has started out primarily amongst heterosexuals would the totals above be as large as they are today? The perception of AIDS being the “gay disease”<\/strong><\/a> certainly wouldn’t be attached to it then. Would that have made the response time to the AIDS crisis quicker? Would the campaign for AIDS awareness be having more impact then?<\/p>\n

Sadly, the link between homosexuality and AIDS will always be there. This makes AIDS awareness a tricky thing (in my opinion). Heterosexuals view the disease as something that doesn’t effect them. Gays now view the disease as less of a threat because the advent of better drugs. It does seem like there is a “who cares … it won’t happen to me” attitude out there. I was in high school in the late 80’s and it was very much in the front of everyone’s mind back then. Now it seems to have slipped into the background … like a monster that’s getting ready to leap from some dark corner. We know it’s there but don’t want to look. It is scary, but we have to face it to make a difference in the staggering statistics that are listed above. Safe sex has always been the answer for the prevention of HIV\/AIDS. Practice it. Don’t be afraid to discuss it with your partner. Don’t let the “heat of the moment” comprise your judgment.<\/p>\n

Local Resourses:
Western North Carolina AIDS Project<\/strong><\/a>
Haywood County\/North Carolina Resources<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worldwide AIDS StatisticsPeople newly infected with HIV in 2002: 5 million AIDS deaths in 2002: 3 million … that’s over 8,000 deaths per day Estimated number of people living with HIV\/AIDS at the end of 2002: 42 million Total of AIDS deaths at the end of 2002: 28.1 million Total number of AIDS orphans: 13.2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8EnCu-","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}