World AIDS Day Around The Globe (PHOTOS)

Across the globe, people are gathering to unite in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

From human red ribbon formations in Taipei, to "I Wear A Condom" flash mobs in Bucharest, see how the world is creating awareness.

To see more great photography visit HuffPost Exposure.

Comments

[LMPE]

06:48 PM on 12/02/2011

In "The Family" (about the C Street group), Jeff Sharlet talked about how AIDS had been declining in Uganda for some years due to awareness about condoms, but when Yoweri Museveni came to power, he encouraged people to burn condoms, and the disease starting spreading again.

[LivelyLexie]

08:27 AM on 12/01/2011

I can't believe there still has to be awareness taught about AIDS in developed parts of the world. There are still so many who contract HIV in the United States, and it isn't for lack of knowledge. It's crazy.

[caneca]

07:02 AM on 12/01/2011

I am old enough to remember the early days of the AIDS epidemic: People dying in the hospitals with nothing doctors could do for them, and the Reagan administration busy dismissing the epidemic as a "Gay Thing". That's when I became politically aware and decided never to vote Republican. I haven't since.

[carolineeaton]

06:19 AM on 12/01/2011

So much suffering this has caused, and yet what does the U.S. do? Bail out banks.

[demsrsilly]

12:49 PM on 12/01/2011

Never heard of PEPFAR?

Probably not, not something the left likes to talk about.

www.pepfar.gov

[carolineeaton]

02:40 PM on 12/01/2011

Well the figures in your site don't actually match up with reality. It's a nice advertisement, but donations are declining, rightie.

[WilliamWalton]

05:20 AM on 12/01/2011

...therefore we should do nothing to stop the spread?
...therefore we should do nothing to find a cure?
...therefore we should... what?

I love obvious statements people make, but I don't like it when they don't finish them. Care to finish yours?

[TheLibraryOfCodex]

08:41 AM on 12/01/2011

FACT: You are talking bollocks.

[KirkCLinn]

01:06 AM on 12/01/2011

Can someone please correct the Berlin slide its not a man in drag it is "a nun from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence"

[Hareega]

12:37 AM on 12/01/2011

Too much lives have been saved by great scientists, unfortunately too many lives have alos been lost due to many people's disregard of this epidemic

I will observe this day here in our small town.

[BlogNobility]

12:05 AM on 12/01/2011

Awareness is great and has my full support -- the photos are inspiring and beautiful .

Education of condom use in the developing world will be key , but the problem still is a matter of hard dollars ( forgive the pun ) for those condoms and for needles ( with exchange programs )

The numbers of contractions are increasing as the dollars shrink and awareness wanes.

We need to do more.

[Raiderthree]

12:59 AM on 12/01/2011

Tell Obama he cut AIDS funding.

[VKoval]

11:13 PM on 11/30/2011

do people still care about aids? i think malaria is more important

[lexigram]

05:37 AM on 12/01/2011

Then you should donate mosquito nets to cut down on malaria cases.
And yes-people still care about AIDS.

[demsrsilly]

12:50 PM on 12/01/2011

President Bush started PEPFAR to combat both.

www.pepfar.gov

[MNJim]

01:47 PM on 12/01/2011

Actually, that would depend on which part of the globe one lives in---- within the US, HIV is substantially more important than malaria.

[rt1027]

11:10 PM on 11/30/2011

laughing

[I Kidd]

12:27 AM on 12/01/2011

You're joking about human beings who have lost their lives. I'll bet you "call yourself" a Christian too.

[Neither Side Wins]

12:46 AM on 12/01/2011

People make there beds, then they per vert in it.... Consequences are a b i t c h....