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HAVE A KILLER HOLIDAY WITH (RED)
The Killers' new Christmas single "A Great Big Sled" is available on iTunes now! Click here to buy the song for 99 cents, with 100% of the proceeds going to the Global Fund as part of (RED) to help eliminate AIDS in Africa.

And read this story from The Independent to find out why The Killers are having a (RED) Christmas.

MEASU(RED) RESULTS
Thank you for purchasing (PRODUCT) RED items. (RED) sales in the U.S. in the first six weeks since launch have raised enough money to:

Provide more than 40,000 people with ARV treatment for a year
(Note: These treatments are only a small portion of a person�s overall treatment and represent just one year of lifelong treatment.)*

Or

Provide more than 2 million peer educators with HIV training*

Or

Provide a year's worth of school materials and daily hot meals for more than 86,000 children orphaned by AIDS*

Or

Provide more than 1 million Rapid Tests which detect HIV and deliver instant test results.*

*Note: These are estimates based on preliminary tracking. Actual contributions are calculated and managed on a quarterly basis.

UNAIDS: AIDS EPIDEMIC UPDATE
UNAIDS and the World Health Organization's annual report on the global AIDS epidemic found that:
- The global AIDS epidemic continues to grow and there is concerning evidence that some countries are seeing resurgence in new HIV infection rates, which were previously stable or declining. However, declines in infection rates are also being observed in some countries, as well as positive trends in young people's sexual behaviors.
- At the end of 2006, an estimated 39.5 million people are living with HIV.
- There were 4.3 million new infections in 2006 with 2.8 million (65%) of these occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and important increases in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where there are some indications that infection rates have risen by more than 50% since 2004.
- In 2006, 2.9 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses. Almost three quarters (72%) of all adult and child deaths due to AIDS in 2006 occurred in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Southern Africa continues to be one of the hardest hit regions on the continent: One third (32%) of all people with HIV globally live in southern Africa and 34% of all deaths due to AIDS in 2006 occurred there.
- In Africa, there were 2.8 million new infections in 2006 which is roughly 7700 new infections per day
- In Africa, there were 2.1 million deaths in 2006 which is roughly 5,800 deaths due to AIDS per day

To read the full report, go to http://data.unaids.org/pub/EpiReport/2006/2006_EpiUpdate_en.pdf