AIDS, AIDS, AIDS

Tomorrow (or today, I guess) is World AIDS Day.
A team of us have been working for months to pull-off a Youth Summit to inform and activate students on the pandemic of HIV/AIDS. It begins tomorrow morning at 9am. We have a handful of speakers (including Francis Chan and Jenna Bush), a load of videos that are really great, and an unbelievable band that will play 4 cover songs over the course of the day.

I'm really excited about it...There will be about 600 people in the live audience and over 2000 people via simulcast.

I'm hoping all of our videos will be online by the end of the weekend...but I'll post about it after the marathon of a day tomorrow.

AIDS DAY CHALLENGE:
Learn one new thing about HIV/AIDS.
And then tell a friend.

Here are a few facts I have learned recently:
* Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by AIDS.
* Someone dies from AIDS every 8 seconds (relatively every time you take a breath)--that adds up to over 9,000 people a day
* If you have HIV and you marry someone with HIV, it doesn't make you okay to have sex--you can be re-infected with a different strand of HIV
* There are so many different strands of HIV that doctors can not keep up--some strands are completely immune to the antiretroviral medication
* A little more than one-tenth of the world’s population lives in sub-Saharan Africa, however, almost 64% of all people living with HIV live in this area. Two million of them are children younger than 15 years old.