Commemorating World AIDS Day in the City By the Bay Northern
California’s Bay Area will host a variety of World AIDS Day
events on Dec. 1 to continue to raise awareness of the still-
prevalent global pandemic. As reported in 2010, more than 60
million people worldwide have been infected since 1981. Twenty-
five million have died, and 34 million are living with HIV/AIDS,
with 7,400 people infected each day. In the United States,
almost 1.2 million people are living with HIV, and about one-
fifth are unaware of their infection. The World Health
Organization created this annual commemoration in 1988, and this
year’s international theme is "Getting to Zero." In order to aim
toward zero infections, Get Screened Oakland will present the
film "Many Women, One Voice: African American Women & HIV,"
followed by a panel discussion that Saturday from 2-5 p.m., at
the University of California-Berkeley’s Alumni House, located on
the south side of campus, near Bancroft and Dana Ways (visit
www.getscreenedoakland.org). "This po