Rockin' the Red Pumps for HIV/AIDS Awareness

Today is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. This is important for us as women and mothers because HIV/AIDS, though not in the media as much as it was in the 1990's, is still killing. And it's killing more women and women of color than cancer and heart disease.

Much progress has been made with HIV/AIDS but the statistics are still high. Too high. 1.1 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV/AIDS, and 280,000 of those are women. Of all new AIDS diagnoses 27% are women. Of that 27%, 66% are African American.

The Red Pump Project is a way to bring awareness and offer strength and courage to the women either fighting the disease or who have been affected by it in some way. Today, 95 bloggers are posting about and/or displaying the Red Pump Widget.

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If you decide to to support the cause, please visit The Red Pump Project for more information and statistics. They also have a great video from MTV's Staying Alive HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention campaign that is a great conversation starter for parents of teens and tweens.

Please use the power of the internet today to help spread the word about this disease and its devastating effect on women and girls.

*Statistics from The Red Pump Project which sites the CDC and Kaiser Family Foundation.