a few statistics:
there are more than 40 million people living with hiv and aids
23 million people have died
global spending on hiv research is $3 billion
u.s. spending on bird flu is $7 billion
8000 people per day die of aids
in the minute it takes you to read this post, 5 people will have died
in zimbabwe the hiv infection rate is 33% – that’s one in every three people
more than a half million children died of aids in 2005
if we continue on this way, there will be 45 million more infected by 2010.

i cannot believe it’s nearly 2006, and in spite of more than 20 years of research into the biggest epidemic this planet has ever seen, we still have no vaccine, no cure.

go give money. wear a ribbon. challenge the government. scream at the top of your lungs.

this is no longer acceptable.

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