World AIDS Day: Events Listing for December 1, 2006

Summary: Online calendar announces local World AIDS Day events around the world.

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You can find a worldwide calendar of many World AIDS Day events at the site of the World AIDS Campaign, http://www.worldaidscampaign.info (click on "WAD 2006 Events Calendar"). We counted over 90 listings for the U.S. (as of November 27). The calendar software is awkward to use, but the countries are in alphabetical order, on 12 separate pages. Currently the headlines for U.S. events are on pages 8, 9, 10, and 11, in no particular order; click each headline for more information.

The World AIDS Day theme this year is Accountability. The World AIDS Campaign is supporting this theme under the broader slogan, "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise."

World AIDS Day events are organized locally, with help from the World AIDS Campaign and from regional organizations. Local groups can submit their listings to the calendar. Thousands of events are expected; most are not in the calendar, usually because the local groups did not submit them.

Note: The World AIDS Campaign, headquartered in Amsterdam, was started within UNAIDS (The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) in 1997. It became independent in 2004, and currently is supported by partners including UNAIDS, the Open Society Institute, and the Ford Foundation. The site offers visitors a choice of English, French, Portugese, Russian, and Spanish, at http://www.worldaidscampaign.info

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