Stop AIDS. Keep the promise

[old bob]

Hey everybody

In 2000, heads of state made a promise to halt and begin to reverse the spread of AIDS by 2015. New reports by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that, as of 2006, the epidemic continues to spread in every region of the world. By now more than 65 million people have been infected with HIV and well over 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981, 2.9 million in 2006 alone.

[lustful_orcs]

Respect.

 

25 years, 25 million dead. A horrible statistic but so terribly much more than a mere number. I think all of us, save from some young'uns, know people who contracted or even died by "the big disease with a little name".

 

And to think that in some regions of africa, already hit hardest by poverty, famine and war, one in six people is HIV infected.

 

Please, all consider becoming a regular benefactor of an AIDS fund, even if just for a few dollars a month.