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Karmaloop & UNICEF Boston co-hosted an event in honor of World AIDS Day.
World AIDS Day is observed around the world on December 1 to celebrate progress in the battle against the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to bring remaining challenges into focus.
Prior to the event, Karmaloop ran a t-shirt design contest around themes of remembering and honoring those who have died from, and celebrating those who are living with, HIV/AIDS, with proceeds from the t-shirt sales going to Hope Lives Here: UNICEF's Campaign Against AIDS. And UNICEF and Emerson College students were busy holding forums around HIV/AIDS and selling the t-shirts on campus.
Emerson students were out in full force at the event, which featured photos taken in Lesotho by UNICEF Regional Director Kimberlea Tracey and spoken word pieces by Emerson students.
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HIV/AIDS is continuing to ravage human lives throughout the globe. By the end of 2002, 42 million people were living with HIV/AIDS, including almost 12 million young people between 15 and 24 and more than 3 million children under the age of 15!
While the epidemic's evolution has varied across regions, there is one common denominator: HIV/AIDS is increasingly a disease of the young and most vulnerable, particularly girls. Of the 5 million new infections in 2002, half were among young people, and , for the first time since the start of the epidemic, half the number of people living with HIV/AIDS were women and girls.