The Youth Blog

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December 1st is observed as the World AIDS day internationally. World AIDS Day, observed each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS among people.

AIDS is a vicious pandemic which has killed more than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007.

On each year’s World AIDS day, WHO gives a theme. This year 2009 World AIDS day theme was “Universal Access and Human Rights“.

Previous themes are -  “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise – Lead – Empower – Deliver” and “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise – Leadership” of 2008 and 2007 respectively.

The World AIDS day is observed with the symbol of Red Ribbon. The Red Ribbon is the global symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS. It is important that more and more youngsters are made aware of the risks involved concerning AIDS.

The World AIDS day is a perfect way to raise awareness and questions for those who lack knowledge about this killer disease.

Gary Neville

Gary Neville, club captain of Manchester United, made it clear to the young guns joining ManU that they’ll have to sweat it out themselves and get better.

 Gary Neville, the rare “one club man”, said that neophytes should not expect any help from older players, as his own lot didn’t get much help from the older pros.

 “It’s a tough place, this one,” said he. “You don’t get too much said to you by the senior players, to be honest. You have to do it yourself.”

 His remark is being seen as an attempt at overhauling the young players now joining ManU, and an effort to make them tougher players and to secure a future at Old Trafford. In a disguised threat to Chelsea, he said, “We’ve got to position ourselves better come January and February – because that’s when the real charge starts.”

British PM Gordon Brown

Even as the world eagerly awaits the proceedings of the Copenhagen summit about to take place come December 7th, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday called for the talks to raise a 10-billion-dollar fund for developing countries to help tackle global warming.

He said this in a interviews with British journalists in Trinidad, where a Commonwealth is about to begin.

The Copenhagen summit on climate change is being widely talked about, and promises to lay a critical milestone in the path of efforts to tackle climate change. A summit where almost all developed and developing countries will express their views and opinions, the summit might just decide the course of future efforts taken to tackle this challenge.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised that Britain itself will contribute 1.3 billion dollars over the next three years. He believes that the rest of Europe and America will also contribute with fervor to the developing countries, for this cause.

French President Nicholas Sarkozy backed such a position.