世界愛滋病日 - 終結愛滋特快車 World AIDS Day - On the fast track to end AIDS

當有人問起：
「你知道十月十日、十月三十一日，以及十二月一日是什麼節日嗎？」
相信大家都可以在一秒內反應過來，十月十日國慶日、十月三十一日萬聖節......。
咦？！那十二月一日究竟是什麼呢？

When someone asks you:
"Do you know what day it is on 10th Oct., 31st Oct. and 1st Dec.?"
I believe everyone can ring the bell in just one second.
10th Oct. is the national day, 31st Oct. the Halloween....
Wait! What is then 1st Dec.?

1981年十二月一日，世界上第一起愛滋病病例被確診，並在1988年十二月一日舉辦了第一屆世界愛滋日。然而，由於資訊的不透明、錯誤的知識教育與偏見，在許多國家，這項節日似乎並不普及。

On 1st Dec., 1981, the first medical case of AIDS was confirmed, then in 1988, it was decided to make this day World AIDS Day. However, because of lack of information, inappropriate education and wrong discrimination, it's not well known in many countries.

昨天透過臉書連結，讀到了一篇網路上所刊載的關於愛滋教育的文章。
與文章作者同樣身為七年級生，學校裡的健康教育課程以及校園愛滋教育巡迴講座，對我自然並不陌生，相對地，裡頭的盲點與不合理，自然也是有目共睹。
從老一輩的「回家自習」跳過性教育那一課，到附上「精美」插圖的國立翻譯館版本，實際上我們所學到是課本上的文字，讓我們可以在考試卷上選出正確的答案。缺乏實際的體驗，或許是我們這一代的通病，真正跳脫傳統羞澀框架，實際在課堂上拿出保險套示範的老師們，究竟又有幾位？

Yesterday I read an article about AIDS education.
Same as the author, I was one of the 80's; therefore, it's not unfamiliar at all for me about public health education and seminar around all campuses. In the other word, the blind spot and unreasonable contents were also commonly witnessed.
From "studying alone at home" from my parent's generation, to the text books with delicate pictures which I was reading; the truth is, we kind of only learned the words in the books, so that we can choose the right answers on our papers. Without experience could be the biggest issue in my generation. But how many teachers are really willing to take out a condom and show it to all classes?

期末考時倒背如流的文字如，愛滋病透過體液、共用針具以及母子垂直傳染，其實間接地證實我們的資訊不完全性。
唾液不也是體液嗎？那與HIV帶原者談話或共用餐具，就有可能被傳染囉？！
愛滋媽媽為了避免將病毒傳給胎兒，就應該馬上墮胎囉？！
上述的答案都是：不！
HIV病毒要透過唾液（或是汗水、淚水）傳染的話，受方必須要一次大量吞下至少六公升的量，才可能被傳染到病毒！先不管你有沒有勇氣一口氣喝下六公升的唾液，有沒有人願意提供給你都還是個問題吧？
受感染的懷孕母體若是持續服藥，因為病毒並非透過基因遺傳，胎兒幾乎也不會受到感染。

HIV can be transferred through body fluid, sharing needles and mother-to-child transmission, which we could remember perfectly before the final exam, is actually a simple proof of incompleteness of this kind of information.
Isn't saliva body fluid? So if I talk to HIV positive or share spoon with them, I will get HIV?!
Mothers with HIV can give it to their babies, so they should consider abortion right away, right?
The answers for above questions are definitely: NO!
HIV could be transferred through saliva (or swear and tear), only if you take at least 6 liter saliva from a HIV positive person at once! Never mind if you are courageous enough to drink 6 liter saliva from someone else, isn't that a big question, if someone's willing to give you 6 liter of his/her saliva?
And, if mothers with HIV do take continuously medication, because HIV don't transfer through genes, their babies can be just healthy as others.

在臺灣以及其他這方面資訊較為封閉的國家，愛滋病一直是私底下備受歧視的傳染病之一。學校與家庭教育拼命灌輸的「得了就會死」的病，實際上，只要持續服藥，就可以像一般健康的正常人生活下去。不願正視相關資訊的傳播與教育，導致多數民眾稱愛滋病為「那種」病、稱帶原者為「那種」人，好像體內帶有HIV病毒的人就是生活不檢點的社會敗類。先姑且不論每個人有決定自己如何生活的權力，因為輸血被傳染的人以及被母體傳染的嬰兒，被貼上此種莫須有的標籤又是何其無辜？

In Taiwan and some other more close countries about this kind of information, AIDS is usually a disease with full discrimination. Schools and our families taught as that if someone gets this disease, the he or she will just die. In fact, if the carrier just continuously has his/her medication, he or she can just live as healthy as other people. Not willing to confront the propagation of information and education makes most of people call AIDS "that kind" of disease and call the carriers "that kind" of people, and makes it sound like everyone with HIV lives in a life of profligacy. Aren't the carrier infected by blood transmission and babies, who got HIV from their mothers, just too innocent to be tagged with this kind of label? Besides, everyone hat his/her right to live in his/her own way.

（此見全文：http://queerology.net/2015/12/zero-discrimination-aids-education/）

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今年臺灣首次將紅絲帶裝飾置於疾病管制署大樓外。另外，臺灣也終於在最近脫離少數對HIV帶原者訂立歧視法條的國家群，間接地讓我們看到臺灣社會的另一種進步。
（臺灣一直到近年前，主張政府得以強制將HIV帶原外國群眾驅離臺灣，不論其在臺生活多久以及是否成家立業。所幸此法目前已經被剔除。）
創造零歧視的社會氛圍，就是世界愛滋日的主要任務之一。透過紀念在醫學科技尚不發達、備受歧視的社會環境下犧牲的愛滋病患者，傳導給社會正確的性與性病教育，如此一來，才有機會在不遠的將來，將傳染率降到最低、減少感染者數量，進而有一天達到零愛滋的世界。

This year, Taiwan's government erected its first red ribbon decoration in front of the CDC. Also, Taiwan's government finally abandoned the discriminate bill of expelling all HIV positive foreigner from this country without any consideration. This also shows us the other kind of progress that we are making in this small island.
To create a zero discrimination atmosphere in our society is the main purpose of World AIDS Day. Through commemoration and right education of sex and AIDS, maybe one day we will be able to create a world with the disease.

德國身為思想先進國家之一，每年的十二月一日，在各大城市廣場上都會舉行點蠟燭祈福的紀念活動。今年慕尼黑的點蠟燭活動在劇院廣場上，並且一路遊行至伊薩河畔的聖盧卡斯教堂。除了繫上紅絲帶與點亮蠟燭跟著遊行隊伍走之外，全世界都提供給民眾表達支持疾病患者與研究機構的管道。

圖片來源：自行攝影

圖片來源：自行攝影

每年十一月開始，在德國各大協會與資訊中心，都會販售當年度的愛滋小熊作為募款方式。蘋果公司執行長提姆．庫克除了在推特上秀了世界各地的蘋果直營店所表達的支持外，在蘋果官網以及iOS應用程式平台上，也都推出了特殊的產品以及銷售推廣，將所得捐獻給愛滋團體。










As one of the pioneer countries, Germany do gather people on the squares of its main cities on 1st Dec. for a candle walk through the cities. This year, the candle walk in Munich was held on Odeonsplatz and then walked along to St. Lucas next to the Isar. Besides this action, the whole world provides citizens a lot of methods to show their supports.

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From November of each year, people in Germany are able to buy a AIDS-Teddy as donation. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, also made announcement on Twitter to show supports from each retail store in the world; also, there're special actions from Apple online store and iOS App store.

以下也提供上述管道的連結，希望大家在更了解這項疾病的同時，也一起攜手更好的未來！

Below there're sites, where you can get to know more about AIDS, while we are actually making this world a better place!

愛滋小熊官網：http://www.aids-teddy.com/index.html

世界愛滋日官網：http://www.worldaidsday.org

RED：http://red.org