World AIDS Day Ends. But Can’t Forget

Posted byYan Sham-ShackletonPosted inSocio-Politico Rants

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According to UNAIDS estimates at the end of 2002 there were:
38.6 million adults and 3.2 million children living with HIV
13.2 million below the age of 18 are orphaned.
During the year 5 million new people became infected with the virus.
Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.
95% of the total number of people with HIV live in the developing world.
This is the biggest Crisis in the Breakdown of Social Structure Facing African Nations since Slavery.
We Cannot Forget
http://www.aids.org/
I Miss Your Post Cards and You said You Will Never Tell Me When the Time Comes. But I Get No Post Cards Anymore. I Miss You. Thank You For Sending Me Away. All I Ask of the Universe is it was Painless and You Went On Your Own Terms as You Wished.

PS Love Letter to West Hollywood

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

2 thoughts on “World AIDS Day Ends. But Can’t Forget”

  1. 126 million orphans in Africa. Just because someone had a culture that didn’t fit a disease.
    There’s no room on this earth for this disease. It must go.

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