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World Aids Day 2012

Friday, November 30, 2012

World AIDS Day is Saturday; AID Atlanta names Woolard interim executive director

Former Atlanta City Council President Cathy Woolard tapped as interim executive director for Midtown organization that works to save and transform lives with a continuum of care that provides access, linkage, and retention to HIV care.

World AIDS Day is held on December 1st each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and the first one was held in 1988. In observance of World AIDS Day, Mayor Kasim Reed and the City of Atlanta has partnered with (RED)™ to illuminate City Hall red throughout he month of December. For the third consecutive year, Atlanta will join more than a dozen cities around the world to illuminate landmarks red for World AIDS Day and raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. A harrowing stat is that Fulton County comprises 10 percent of Georgia’s population, but accounts for…

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