As each minute ticks by, another African child dies from AIDS. Yet right now, across Africa and other heavily impacted regions, there are prevention, care and treatment interventions ready to be implemented which would help prevent these deaths and address the HIV/AIDS crisis. Our knowledge of what works to fight HIV/AIDS is now high - but the available resources to implement programs remain obstructively low. ... Since the first HIV case 20 years ago, over 60 million persons have been infected, and over 20 million have already died from AIDS. The spread continues, particularly in poorer countries. In Africa, there are an estimated 11,000 new infections per day, and during 2001 approximately 2.3 million Africans will die from HIV/AIDS. Currently, there are approximately 14 million children orphaned by HIV/AIDS, with a projection of 40 million children by 2010 if no action is taken.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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12/17/2001: polluters ho!