Today, December 1, 2009 is World AIDS Day and with it comes a mixed message.  Progress is being made where progress was said to be impossible just a few short years ago, but again, it is not enough and it is coming too slow. 

More than 4 million people in “developing” countries are now receiving antiretrovirals up 36% from 2008.  This also marks a ten-fold increase over five years but it doesn’t even approximate the need or come close to G8’s 2005 promise of universal access.  For every two people on treatment there are five new infections. 

Now, here are a couple quick things you (maybe) can do:

(1) The Stephen Lewis Foundation (2) Email (3) Facebook and (4) Twitter.

What a thrill it was to stand on stage in front
of a sell-out crowd of 2700 people in Toronto’s historic Massey Hall on
October 1 and introduce comedian Mary Walsh who hosted a star-studded
celebration of politics and culture.

Make Poverty History co-sponsored the Vote Out Poverty Rally with
the Ontario Coalition for Social Justice with the aim of making poverty
a key issue in the Ontario election. The event put political leaders on
the spot to say what they would do to help make poverty history in
Ontario.

Please copy and send this on to all of your contacts:

***Vote Out Poverty in Ontario on OCTOBER 10th: Watch This Video, copy the URL and pass it around.
***POVERTY IS POLITICAL. SO ARE ITS' SOLUTIONS. VOTE OUT POVERTY: Poverty as defined by the Low-Income Cut Offs of Statistics Canada 2006 - download and read more here.