World AIDS Day 2011: Do You Know Someone With HIV/AIDS

With World AIDS Day 2011 coming up this Thursday, we’ll continue to post on the topic throughout the week in an attempt to raise awareness. Yesterday, we posted a gallery tracing the on-screen depiction of HIV/AIDS from its initial portrayal as something that was essentially death sentence affecting only the fringes of society to a much more manageable and less terrifying disease. And now we want to hear from you.

The Center for Disease Control estimates that there are more than 1.2 million people in the Unites States living with HIV, spanning across lines of race, gender and sexual orientation. In the inter-office discussions we’ve been having of late, we’ve learned that some of us know someone with HIV, some of us do not, and some of us simply aren’t sure. And we’re curious to know how the disease affects the lives of our readers, if it does at all, so we’ve created a poll. Take it, yeah?

For more information on World AIDS Day 2011, go to ONE.org.