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22 04 2007That HIV/AIDS is a plague that is ravaging the African continent should be the biggest story in the world. Fellow human beings are dying not by the tens or the thousands, but by the millions. Whole families, entire generations. Yet it barely even makes the front page of the media.
33 teenagers were killed in a senseless shooting last week. A totally murderous tragedy. Everyone is shocked at such a loss of life. But people are dying EVERY DAY from HIV/AIDS – millions. There is no such shock and little interest. Considering that the disease is wrecking countries on the African continent. On the human tragedy scale, I’d say it ranks pretty high. But (with a few notable exceptions) it barely makes the news these days and where it does it is a struggle to keep it there. How can that be? AIDS is preventable in the West. Why aren’t we ensuring antiretroviral drugs get to these sufferers?
Journalist Stephanie Nolan’s book 28 - Stories of Aids in Africa has just been published and caught my attention today. This is a part excerpt from the Globe and Mail: Read the rest of this entry »
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