Marking the official launch of world AIDS day, the United Nations said there will be no excuses in meeting commitments for the treatment and care of those with the virus and the prevention of the spread of AIDS.
The total number of people with HIV has reached an estimated all-time high of 40.3 million people, almost half of those being women with SubSaharan Africa remaining the hardest hit region home to 25.8 million people with HIV which is two-thirds of all the people infected. The AIDS epidemic has claimed over 3 million lives in 2005 with more than half a million children dying with this dreaded disease, the AIDS epidemic continues to grow with increasing numbers being affected by the deadly virus.
Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News
As millions mark world AIDS day, we must be reminded that this deadly disease at its highest level of those infected only foreshadows the pandemic spread of disease in the last days according to Bible prophecy. World AIDS day is a harsh reminder of the devastation that the HIV virus has caused across the world.
The call for the care of and treatment for those inflicted with HIV is coupled with the efforts to prevent the spread of this dreaded disease by the United Nation's demands that world leaders not forget their commitments to fight AIDS. Many new regions of the world have in recent days become aware of the potential for catastrophic results if they do not get this problem under control; places with massive populations like China and India. With numbers over 40 million people inflicted with HIV, it is at its highest level ever.
Bible prophecy speaks of pandemic disease in the last days that will take the lives of millions of people. Jesus, in the Olivet discourse recorded in Matthew 24, said that pestilence, pandemic disease will be a sign of His soon return. The book of Revelation 6:7-8 gives the number of those who die from starvation, war, and pandemic disease at one-fourth of the world's population, that would be 1.5 billion people.
Marking world AIDS day is a reminder, Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
