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Today is world AIDS day.. do something. Create Awareness..
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and my friend posted this speech given by the Danish Government:
World Aids Day 2006
Today is World Aids Day. Please allow me to say a few words on the occasion of the most terrible anniversary the world has witnessed.
The last 25 years, AIDS has killed 25 million persons, and AIDS is the epidemic that will not end.
This speech is dedicated to the 39 million HIV-infected men, women and children, who are alive, but already condemned. Condemned, because they have no choice.
If a 5-year-old HIV-infected boy lives in the street, he can either take shelter in the sewer or try to find his parents, whom he has escaped from.
If a family can only afford 1 treatment, the husband can choose to either buy medicine for himself or his wife, who cannot support the family on her own.
If a mother works as a prostitute to survive, she can either choose to take the risk - or refuse to have unprotected sex and get beaten up.
I wonder if we fully grasp the powerlessness and loneliness, humiliation and despair that they live with each single day of their lives?
Every minute, 8 persons get infected with HIV. That is more than 11,000 infected a day.
82,000 infected a week. 350,000 infected a month. 4 million persons infected every year.
They get infected because of ignorance; because no one told them how to protect themselves. And they die because of neglect - because the medicine that could extend their life is only available to the few.
Still, this anniversary is worth celebrating: In some of the countries that are most severely affected, the negative trend has now been turned.
More people use a condom and fewer young people get infected. More have access
to medicine and pregnant women are no longer HIV-positive as a matter of course.
Knowledge is the power that can put an end to the epidemic.
If we share this knowledge and force yet more people to put AIDS on the agenda, there is still a hope that one day we can eradicate suppression and ignorance - the two largest sources of infection.
Let’s use this knowledge to make a choice that truly makes a difference.
Thank you for listening.
and she wrote a really amazing and sweet piece that makes me cry because its amazing... waaaarning.. its HP slash.. but its not graphic. and read it.
http://animimares.livejournal.com/67391.html
GO!
and my friend posted this speech given by the Danish Government:
World Aids Day 2006
Today is World Aids Day. Please allow me to say a few words on the occasion of the most terrible anniversary the world has witnessed.
The last 25 years, AIDS has killed 25 million persons, and AIDS is the epidemic that will not end.
This speech is dedicated to the 39 million HIV-infected men, women and children, who are alive, but already condemned. Condemned, because they have no choice.
If a 5-year-old HIV-infected boy lives in the street, he can either take shelter in the sewer or try to find his parents, whom he has escaped from.
If a family can only afford 1 treatment, the husband can choose to either buy medicine for himself or his wife, who cannot support the family on her own.
If a mother works as a prostitute to survive, she can either choose to take the risk - or refuse to have unprotected sex and get beaten up.
I wonder if we fully grasp the powerlessness and loneliness, humiliation and despair that they live with each single day of their lives?
Every minute, 8 persons get infected with HIV. That is more than 11,000 infected a day.
82,000 infected a week. 350,000 infected a month. 4 million persons infected every year.
They get infected because of ignorance; because no one told them how to protect themselves. And they die because of neglect - because the medicine that could extend their life is only available to the few.
Still, this anniversary is worth celebrating: In some of the countries that are most severely affected, the negative trend has now been turned.
More people use a condom and fewer young people get infected. More have access
to medicine and pregnant women are no longer HIV-positive as a matter of course.
Knowledge is the power that can put an end to the epidemic.
If we share this knowledge and force yet more people to put AIDS on the agenda, there is still a hope that one day we can eradicate suppression and ignorance - the two largest sources of infection.
Let’s use this knowledge to make a choice that truly makes a difference.
Thank you for listening.
and she wrote a really amazing and sweet piece that makes me cry because its amazing... waaaarning.. its HP slash.. but its not graphic. and read it.
http://animimares.livejournal.com/67391.html