Worldwide, 2.7 million children are infected with HIV. According to The Child Health Site, 2,000 children are infected EVERY DAY with the incurable infection. Total world HIV population has now grossed at more than 40 million people. Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, approximately five million children have died from AIDS worldwide. In 2001, 800,000 children were newly infected with AIDS and 580,000 children died from AIDS. In 2001, more than 6,000 young people worldwide aged 15-24 became infected with HIV every day. That’s about four every minute: 50% of all new HIV infections acquired after infancy. In the U.S., it is estimated that two adolescents are infected with HIV each hour. That’s 48 teenagers per day!
Recent figures show that women now account for 44% of all the number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. An estimated 13.2 million children younger than age 15 had lost their mothers or both parents by the end of 1999.
Life expectancy at birth in southern Africa, which rose from 44 years in the early 1950s to 59 in the early 1990s, is expected to drop to just 45 between 2000 and 2010 because of AIDS. More than 95% of people with HIV live in the developing world. Health experts predict that more people will die of AIDS in the next decade than have died in all the wars of the 20th century. When will we do something to help these infected people? When will you help a child with HIV/AIDS?
There’s two ways to immediately help without disrupting your life, putting yourself at risk or even having to leave your home:
1) Log onto the Child Health site, daily, and click the big blue “Help a Child – Click for Free” button. You will note a page of ads for the site’s sponsors. The Child Health Site gives 100% of its revenue from these ads to fund health services provided by our charity partners. The funding adds up quickly when more people, people like you and I, click daily. Ad revenue is generated from the site’s sponsors every time you click, more funding is given to the site’s charity partners, and more children are helped through these charities’ health services. The site’s success in saving young lives and keeping children healthy – at least 1,000 children helped a day – depends on the support of clickers like us. The Child Health Site is not a nonprofit organization, meaning that 100% of advertising profit is given directly to the charity partners, all working hard to improve the health status of children throughout the world. Click, click, click. Costs us nothing and costs a child an opportunity to live. The site even has a daily email click reminder you can sign up to. How clicky is that?
2) The Child Health Site also offers a range of beautiful T Shirts for the caring and socially responsible person to buy and wear on any Topical Whensday. Purchase of any good on their on-line store (Gear that Gives) directly assists those children affected with range of life threatening health issues. From every T Shirt or product purchased, royalties are given directly to the partner charities. Buying just one product equals health services for at least four children in need.
For a limited period, and while stocks last, the site is offering a FREE NECKLACE WITH T-SHIRT PURCHASE! Buy a Grow Peace V-neck T-Shirt or a Cultivate Peace V-neck T-Shirt and get a FREE Peace Love Harmony Hoop Necklace.
When will I help a child with HIV/AIDS? I have been clicking on the blue button every day for a week now and I will be doing some Christmas shopping from Gear that Gives. When will you spend one minute to click and help minister to the world’s sick children?
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