City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0346R

• File #: 07-0346R
• Version: 0
• Name: Baltimore City Observance of World AIDS Day - December 1, 2007
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/26/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 11/26/2007
• Title: Baltimore City Observance of World AIDS Day - December 1, 2007 FOR the purpose of observing World Aids Day that focuses global attention on the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and provides an opportunity for governments, national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations and individuals to demonstrate the importance of the fight against HIV/AIDS and directing attention to the HIV/AIDS crisis among African Americans in Baltimore City.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Rochelle Spector, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, President Young, Keiffer Mitchell, Vernon E. Crider
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/26/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
11/26/2007	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
11/26/2007	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Holton

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Baltimore City Observance of World AIDS Day - December 1, 2007

FOR the purpose of observing World Aids Day that focuses global attention on the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and provides an opportunity for governments, national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations and individuals to demonstrate the importance of the fight against HIV/AIDS and directing attention to the HIV/AIDS crisis among African Americans in Baltimore City.
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With an estimated 38.6 million people worldwide living with HIV at the end of 2005, and with more than 25 million people having died of AIDS since 1981, the Department of Health and Human Services adopts World AIDS Day to remind everyone that action makes a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Americans are reminded that HIV/AIDS does not discriminate - with an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 HIV positive individuals living in the United States, and with approximately 40,000 new infections occurring every year; this country, like other nations around the world, is deeply affected by HIV/AIDS.

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that in the United States, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a health crisis for African Americans. At all stages of HIV/AIDS - from infection with HIV to death with AIDS - blacks (including Af...