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December 02, 2006
You me us
Yesterday is the World AIDS Day. For over two decades the silent killer is deadly than ever, and millions are living with HIV. A combination misunderstanding, social taboo surrounding AIDS, third world countries government in denials, and plain ignorance have propelled AIDS to be in track of another epidemic of black plague proportion.
I was first alerted by the scale of AIDS epidemic a few years ago while sitting at my dentist surgery waiting for my turn. Thinking that the epidemic has been contained with a massive campaign of safe sex, a National Geographic series covering the devastation of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa showed me the harsh reality of AIDS in third world countries. South East Asia is also featured in the article. Since then I have kept an eye of this deadly virus, and I has been a heart-wrenching experience to keep reading articles after articles about the spread of AIDS and how little most people know about it. The most harrowing of all is that the spread of AIDS can be stopped by very simple means.
AIDS is real, is here and is killing millions of people every year. Increasing the awareness of AIDS is one of the most crucial steps of stopping the AIDS juggernaut.
Posted by vhadiant at December 2, 2006 11:16 AM
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