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that 1st December every year is world AIDS day. It's made more poignant than ever for me personally, as the young man who I am close to has been HIV+ since his birth.
The theme this year is "act aware" - take action to tackle HIV prejudice and to protect yourself and others from HIV transmission.
Take what action you can - lots of info on the web (try http://www.avert.org/world-aids-day.htm for starters). Get informed, be prepared to ask and answer questions, and wear a red ribbon (home-made or bought - time to put your orders in now if you're buying!).
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"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Location: UK, in Devon
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I will be wearing my ribbon.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I have my usual supply to hand out to friends, colleagues, and people I meet on the day.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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One way that people might like to contribute to the fight against HIV and AIDS is to download a tiny bit of software that runs in the background on your PC / Linux box, working out possible vulnerabilities of the HIV virus when your computer is otherwise idle.
It's part of a massive "distributed computing" effort,run under the "World Community Grid". Full dtails are on the "Fight AIDS @ Home" website http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/download-FAAH.html
I've been running the software (in various incarnations) for just over 5 years now, and not found it ever to cause any problems.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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