Today is World AIDS Day

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Today is World AIDS Day
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Thu, 12-01-2005 - 6:55am

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~IslandGirl



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Registered: 12-04-2003
Thu, 12-01-2005 - 3:11pm

Thanks for the reminder IG!


This year I read a book by a reporter from ABC called "We Are All the Same" and it was an amazing story about AIDS in Africa and the terrible toll it has taken.


It's very easy to think that it isn't an issue anymore, and I would highly recommend reading this book to see just how big of a problem it still is especially in other parts of the world.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594200289/102-8300416-2388927?v=glance&n=283155


From Publishers Weekly
The author, an award-winning senior correspondent for ABC News, has written an extraordinarily moving account of a courageous South African boy's battle with AIDS that is also a scathing indictment of South African leaders who have failed to confront the AIDS epidemic in their country. Nkosi, born in 1989 in the former Zululand, was infected by his poverty-stricken mother, Daphne. As Wooten recounts, Daphne moved heaven and earth to insure that her son would be provided for after her own death and agreed to his adoption, at age three, by Gail Johnson, a white South African, who had met Nkosi at a hospice. A hero in her own right, Johnson nourished Nkosi's strong spirit, which gave out only when he died at the age of 12. Before then, Johnson and Nkosi traveled internationally to gain support for Nkosi's Haven, a home for women and children with AIDS in South Africa. Looking at the larger picture, Wooten points out that Nelson Mandela refused to deal with the AIDS crisis because he was embarrassed to speak publicly about sex (a position he later said he regretted). Mandela's successor, Thabo Mkebi, has also hampered attempts to get antiretroviral drugs to AIDS victims, absurdly denying that the virus HIV exists. According to Wooten, 20% of South African girls are currently infected with HIV and 7,000 infants die of AIDS each month. This powerful account puts a human face on a catastrophic epidemic that grows worse daily.


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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 12-01-2005 - 10:17pm

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