AEGiS is developing CAMPAIGN 100. Our goal is to generate donations of $100,000.00 annually. We are targeting $10 to $5,000 dollar donations. Assuming the smaller end, it would take 10,000 people out of our 6 million visitors per year giving $10 dollars to meet our goal. With 6 million visits each year, that is only .1
Our objective here at AEGiS is to collect as much information as possible regarding HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases. We want you to be able to log on to AEGiS, at no cost to you, and have access to the information you need without having to search through many websites. We want to make our website your one sto
An estimated 5 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide during 2001; that is about 14,000 infections each day. More than 95 percent of these new infections occurred in developing countries and approximately 6,000 infections were in young people aged 15 to 24. These are alarming statistics and we at AEGiS feel that
An estimated 5 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide during 2001; that is about 14,000 infections each day. More than 95 percent of these new infections occurred in developing countries. In 2001, approximately 6,000 young people aged 15 to 24 became infected with HIV every day - that is about 5 million new infe
In terms of illness and death, AIDS is worse than the Black Death of the 14th century. The Black Death - or bubonic plague - ravaged Asia and Europe in the 14th Century killing 40 million people. It is sad commentary that in this new millennium, HIV/AIDS is likely to surpass the Black Death as the worst pandemic ever,
According to a new U.N. report, more than 5 million people worldwide will have contracted the AIDS virus in 2002, bringing the total number of those infected to 42 million. Of those who will die from HIV/AIDS this year, 610,000 are younger than 15, and almost half are women. While these statistics are useful in helping
We live in an interdependent world, there are no borders anymore. There is constant movement of people. When it comes to health, disease, the environment, terrorism we are all in the same boat. We all need to deal with the HIV/AIDS crisis and we are not doing enough. The staggering number of those struck down with this
As the close of another year comes ever closer, we need your help. Can we count on you for your tax deductible donation? Your help will enable us to continue our work of making available critical information needed for those living with HIV/AIDS. In 2001 we had 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS, 5 million people n
AEGiS, as a public non-profit organization, needs your individual donations to help us maintain our independence from for profit organizations. Your individual donation, whatever the amount, helps maintain the public nature of our operation which is to dispense critical information to those living with HIV/AIDS. As
In September, AEGiS had 663,918 visitors. This is an increase over last year of 159,198. An increase of 31.5%. Part of this of course is due to the events of 9/11. But AEGiS continues to have increased visitors and we need your help in serving this growing community. THERE IS NO CHARGE for our service and NO ONE WILL B
One of the missions of AEGiS is to preserve for all eternity a complete and full documentation of how humanity, at the end of the 20th century, and into the next millennium, faced and dealt with what has been described as the worst pandemic since Biblical times in both dimension and scope. We at AEGiS, feel that this i
The goal of AEGiS (AIDS Education Global Information System) is to help provide access to the understanding and knowledge that will lead to better care, prevention, and a cure to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), in cooperation with many organizatio
Did you know that AEGiS is staffed by only four people! One of those takes care of the business side of AEGiS. All that you see on the Web Site is produced by three people working extraordinary hours. During this past few days we have been very busy trying to bring you all the news from the 14th International AIDS Conf
Despite recently admitting under oath that he gave bogus injections to at least one AIDS patient, Dr. G. Steven Kooshian is seeking to take over Orange County s public AIDS programs. Kooshian--who is also under investigation by the state s medical board on a variety of misconduct charges--applied early this year to win
Just weeks ago, the U2 frontman was jetting through Africa with Treasury Secretary Paul O Neill and exploring the deep poverty of the continent. With a gaggle of media in tow, the unlikely duo visited cities and villages, often inspecting hospitals, orphanages and clinics where the tragic effects of the AIDS pandemic c
International Conference on AIDS: receiving a scholarship prevents one from acquiring a visa In its response to a press release issued by the Red2002, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affaris has clarified that participants of the XIV International AIDS Conference to be held July 7 12 in Barcelona, must demonstrate suff
In an incomprehensible move, Spain is denying visas to participants of the XIV Conference of the AIDS to be held in Barcelona from July 7-12 of July, an event that the country s Ministry of Health, has contributed 300,000 euros to. It is a whopping contradiction as it is scholarship holders and people from developing c
Orange County physician G. Steven Kooshian confessed during an April court deposition that he secretly ordered his nurse to inject an AIDS patient with liquid vitamins rather than an expensive and medically critical drug, documents obtained by the OC Weekly show. Kooshian made the admission during an emotional April 25
(As Published in the March/April 2002 Edition of HIV Plus Magazine)
John D. Moore, MS
After years of vigilant HIV prevention efforts on the part of government agencies and local nonprofit organizations, statistics show that large numbers of young people are abandoning-or are misinformed about-the lessons learned by their predecessors on safer sex. Chris, a muscular 24-year-old retail clerk, sips coffee
HIV/AIDS activists throughout the nation have their eyes on Vermont, where the Legislature is considering a bill to legalize the medical use of marijuana. They see the outcome as a litmus test of Gov. Howard Dean s support of the gay community. Dean, a Democrat who will not seek reelection in November, has presidential
NEW REPORT by a conservative foundation that says the country s AIDS programs are rife with fraud and abuse has infuriated the local HIV community. Coming on the heels of last year s flap over supposedly graphic advertisements by Stop AIDS Project, many think it signals an all-out assault on AIDS funding that is driven
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