The annual AIDS walk is coming up.
In case any of you missed the last few episodes: AIDS still kills. HIV has become more and more livable - advances in medication have been miraculous, giving sufferers longer, more precious existences.
AIDS still kills, and anyone with HIV can develop it, with no order, no warning, no longterm prior indication. That's it.
That's the deal.
The advances in the treatments for HIV give me hope.
Here was this duo of diseases that the world stood aghast at ten years ago, shocked at our unpreparedness, our ignorance, and we have worked, we have striven...and we have made advances. The mercilessness of AIDS is not an absolute - it cannot be. Given time and means, we can beat it.
Time happens of its own accord, it is true, but means, well. We all face a daily battle to ensure that we can eat and live and prosper, but the ability to further research for disease rests upon each of our shoulders - the power is in our hands.
The thing in your hand right now is a mouse...so use it to click on this link:
Donate To the NY 2005 AIDS Walk: Change The Course Of The Epidemic
Let me address a few issues you might have.
AIDS is still overwhelmingly real. In the developed world the rate of spread may be dropping, but it is dropping from a rate which is too high. In South Africa, without wanting to blind you with statistics, here's an indication of how bad things are: Sesame Street in South Africa have introduced an HIV positive character. Education and prejudice and the need to do something are all there. All that is lacking is action.
Please: donate if you can. $1 is the minimum...how would you be if you skipped a bottle of mineral water tomorrow? A chocolate bar? A newspaper?
I think you'd be okay, no? You'd cope.
Meanwhile, there are phalanxes upon legions of workers waiting to solve one of the most vital medical enigmas of our time, just waiting in the wings.
The link is there, peeps: it's even through Amazon.com, on the basis that most of you have an amazon account...
Everything is gratefully accepted.
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