WHEREAS, December 1 is World AIDS day; and

        WHEREAS, Idaho’s first case of HIV was reported 23 years ago in 1985; and

        WHEREAS, one in four HIV-positive individuals do not know that they are HIV positive and therefore unknowingly risk passing the virus on to others; and

        WHEREAS, there is no known cure for HIV, and no vaccine readily available for the prevention of infection; and

        WHEREAS, at this time, the most effective intervention against HIV is awareness and education; and

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim the month of December 2008, to be

HIV AND AIDS AWARENESS MONTH

in Idaho.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho in Boise on this 1st day of December in the year of our Lord two-thousand and eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-third and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred nineteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE