There are at least 6,102 Coloradans living with HIV and at least another 4,511 living with AIDS. Among the organizations reaching out to them and others this World AIDS Day [2] is Colorado State University's Department of International Education, which is providing free and confidential HIV testing with the help of the Northern Colorado AIDS Project, notes the Rocky Mountain Collegian [3].

More people than ever are living with HIV and AIDS thanks to advances in medicine, but that's meant less attention on the diseases. "With that lack of a crisis, there's a lot of complacency," Ruth Pederson, executive director of the Colorado AIDS Project, tells The Denver Post [4]. Yet, the number of new HIV cases each year hasn't decreased for more than a decade in Colorado. "If the number of newly infected persons continues to stay where it is or rises, and we don't get new resources, it's likely we'll be in a situation where we can't provide medication to everybody who needs it," says Ralph Wilmoth, who heads the state health department's HIV section.

Meanwhile, local fashion designer and Project Runway runner-up Mondo Guerra is lending some celebrity to the cause, writes Latina [5] magazine. The HIV-positive Denver native has designed two T-shirts (here [6] and here [7]) for Piperlime.com, and $20 from each sale ($50 per shirt) will go to amFAR Aids Research. Guerra will also speak at the United Nations today about his struggles with finding low-income treatment in Colorado.