Saturday, December 01, 2007
World AIDS Day
So here I sit typing away in the first moments of World AIDS day 2007. I am struck by the fact that HIV/AIDS is talked so much about in terms of statistics and numbers and rarely has a human face presented. Each one of those percentage points represents someone. A person with friends, a family, and feelings. My anger about how this epidemic is being handled has lead to activsm and has contributed hugely to me chosing to go back to school for a degree in social work. I hope that everyone reading this will do something beautiful today so that we all can put a little bit of ourselves out there into the world and diminish the ugliness all around us...
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Interesting. This last week I noticed posters at train stations over here which were just pictures of kids and then the name of the organisation, STOP AIDS NOW! They are definitely tryi
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They are definitely trying to show the human face, is what I was going to say.
It is good to see that some people in the world are trying to humanize this issue. The media outlets seem to be the worst at just reporting the numbers. Thanks for stopping by subtleknife.
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