Today is World
AIDS Day. The theme this year is "Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS." From the Wikipedia article I just linked to: 58% of people with AIDS are women. While homosexual men continue to suffer higher per capita AIDS rates, the majority of victims are currently heterosexual women and men, and children, in developing countries.
Having been born in the early 80s, AIDS has always tinted and loomed over my life. (So much so, in fact, that one of the first stories I wrote was about child AIDS.)
I know I'm preaching to the choir, here (I'd be baffled in a bad way if it turned out I wasn't), but yes. Here you go.