Apple’s raised $200 million via its (RED) partnership to fight AIDS

Apple today published a overnice article nigh the HIV-positive caregivers who are working to assist halt AIDS inwards Africa, inwards which the companionship reveals that it has then far raised a cool $200 1000000 through its PRODUCT(RED) sales for the Global Fund to assist struggle this disease.

Established inwards 2006 past times U2’s Bono too Bobby Shriver, (RED) has raised to a greater extent than than $600 1000000 to back upwardly the Global Fund to struggle AIDS, tuberculosis too malaria. $200 1000000 of that has come upwardly from (RED)’s partnership amongst Apple, the organization’s largest corporate donor.

Apple’s (RED) partnership has been going since 2012.

Great intelligence ahead of World AIDS Day, @Apple's amount for @RED reaches $200 MILLION. 100% goes to #endAIDS. Thank you lot all for buying @Apple (PRODUCT)RED. https://t.co/ZIKxFb7Uql pic.twitter.com/to8WRNXNW0

— (RED) (@RED) November 29, 2018

According to the most recent stats, inwards the final eighteen years the issue of babies born amongst HIV has been reduced past times nearly two-thirds: from 1,200 per twenty-four hours inwards 200, which was the peak yr of novel infections amidst children, to 500 per twenty-four hours now.

Apple writes:

Last year, Republic of Kenya had 53,000 novel cases of HIV. Young women are infected at twice the charge per unit of measurement every bit immature men. As high every bit these numbers seem, they’re a vast improvement from years ago.

After the Global Fund provided 17.5 1000000 people amongst antiretroviral treatments at the 2nd of diagnosis, but 4.8 pct of Kenya’s adults tested HIV-positive inwards 2017.

Robina Anene Muli, who runs the Embakasi Health Centre inwards Nairobi, Kenya, said that the Global Fund too (RED) accept made “a huge behave on inwards the lives of HIV-positive patients, peculiarly when it comes to testing kits, ARVs too other drugs—they render eighty pct of our supplies too funding.”

With 2018 iPhone models, Apple has done something it has never done before—it made available a PRODUCT(RED) variant of iPhone XR (its best-selling model each twenty-four hours since launch) from twenty-four hours i versus a few months after similar inwards the past.

Apple’s Vice President of iPhone too iPad marketing, Greg Joswiak, told CNET that the Cupertino tech giant volition donate $1 for every Apple Pay purchase at an Apple Store, Apple.com or through the Apple Store app side past times side calendar week from Dec 1 to seven inwards respect of World AIDS Day.

“Not only does each purchase convey us closer to an AIDS-free generation but every dollar provides v days of life-saving medicine,” the executive underscored.

Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, people tin alive amongst acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) too human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to a greater extent than or less usually for decades.

Apple is proud to back upwardly @RED too healthcare workers across Africa inwards the struggle against AIDS. Beyond testing too treatment, their kindness too empathy are helping halt the spread too stigma of HIV. https://t.co/WacbNWFVWg

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) November 29, 2018

But spell the HIV drug “cocktails” tin command virus levels too assist hold your immune system, at that topographic point is currently no cure for the HIV virus every bit of yet.

Anyone tin instruct HIV, including men, women, too children, besides every bit people who are gay or straight. In the US alone, about 37,600 people instruct infected amongst the HIV virus each year, too to a greater extent than than 12,000 people amongst AIDS locomote each year.

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