The AIDS Free Generation is Due in 2015.
Last year, nearly half a million babies were born with HIV. By 2015, that number could be zero. Every (TIMBUK2)RED purchase helps fund programs that eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child. Together, we can help ensure that a new generation will be born AIDS free in 2015. We are contributing 5% of sales from our (TIMBUK2)RED Special Edition products to the Global Fund to combat AIDS in Africa.
About RED™ and (PRODUCT) RED™ RED™’s primary objective is to engage the private sector in raising awareness and funds for the Global Fund, to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. Companies whose products take on the RED™ mark contribute a significant percentage of the sales or portion of the profits from that product to the Global Fund to help finance AIDS programs in Africa, with an emphasis on the health of women and children. www.joinred.com
About the Global Fund Since its creation in 2002, the Global Fund has become the dominant financer of programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, with approved funding of US $19.3 billion for programs in 144 countries. The Global Fund supports programs based on agreed performance targets and disburses money in response to proven results. www.theglobalfund.org
How Do RED™ and the Global Fund Help?
AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa, but AIDS is a preventable and treatable disease. (RED)™ money helps support Global Fund financed grants that provide both treatment and prevention programs. These programs have reached more than 5 million people.
HIV/AIDS Statistics
- 67% of all HIV positive people live in sub-Saharan Africa, even though it is home to only 10% of the world’s population.
- Approximately 60% of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are women.
- There are an estimated 2.1 million children living with HIV globally. 90% of these are in Africa.
- 14.1 million children in Africa have been orphaned because of AIDS.
- It can take as little as 2 pills a day, at a cost of 40 cents, to keep a person with HIV alive.
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