Mission News: Why Should I Care?

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In Baltimore, statistics on AIDS are available since 1985. HIV case reporting began in 1994. For more detail, you can Google AIDS statistics for Baltimore. Baltimore City totals include~ HIV cases: 17,017; HIV non-AIDS: 9,193; AIDS cases 15,167; HIV deaths: 491; AIDS deaths: 8,959.

The 2005 statistical report for the Baltimore metropolitan area reveals that in 2004 there were 1,761 newly diagnosed cases of HIV/AIDS and 14,238 of living cases identified.

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In 2004, the United States granted World Relief $9.7 million to run programs for the next 5 years promoting abstinence in Mozambique, Rwanda, Kenya and Haiti. In the past 2 years, 220,000 youth, ages 10-24, have attended classes. 152,000 of those contacts were in public schools, where World Relief staff travel a circuit, teaching a secularized version of Choose Life curriculum. In a church setting, teachers are free to talk about relationship with the Lord. Young people are taught the importance of setting goals, avoiding premarital sex and ignoring peers who tease them.