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Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA (English: Together We Can Stop AIDS) is a mural created by American artist and social activist Keith Haring in 1989. The mural was painted to raise awareness to the AIDS epidemic. It is located next to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona museum in the El Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona.
The Latino Commission on AIDS (Spanish: La Comisión Latina sobre el SIDA) is an advocacy and service nonprofit membership organization formed in 1990 with a mission to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latino community in the United States of America including its territories.
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) [8] [9] [10] is a retrovirus [11] that attacks the immune system.It is a preventable disease. [5] It can be managed with treatment and become a manageable chronic health condition. [5]
The famous photo of David Kirby dying from AIDS next to his father, sister, and niece. David Lawrence Kirby (December 6, 1957 – May 5, 1990) [1] was an American HIV/AIDS activist, and the subject of a photograph taken at his deathbed by Therese Frare.
World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, [1] is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease.
The 5th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 1989) in Montreal, Canada, from June 4 to 9, 1989, saw activists from ACT UP and its Canadian counterparts, AIDS Action Now! and Réaction-SIDA, raise awareness about HIV/AIDS challenges. Their disruption challenged the AIDS community's hierarchy, advocating for more activism and advocacy in ...
Alongside crime, drought from the El Niño weather phenomenon has crippled Ecuador’s hydroelectric plants and thrown the country into an energy crisis. To conserve electricity, the government ...
According to Unaids statistics, there were 15,000 confirmed cases of the disease in Uruguay in 2021. Of those, 14,000 patients were over the age of 15. Among people older than 15 with HIV or the AIDS syndrome associated with the HIV disease, 8,600 patients were male and 5,800 female. 0.6 percent of Uruguay's population aged 15 to 49 were affected, with percentages of 0.7 for males and 0.5 for ...