Confessions of a Misguided Trio

and I think to myself.... What a ? World...

My blood pressure always goes up a bit when I receive email from old friends.

This morning I received an email from Sidjanie in Geneva, attached was the UNAIDS update for December of 2005. So far my overly slow printer is only half way through it, so a more detailed response will be made at a future date.

2005 was a depressingly record breaking year…

The number of people living with HIV has increased from 37.5 million in 2003 to 40.3 million people.

More than 3 million people died of AIDS in 2005, more than 500000 were children.

It gets worse; the above figures are merely the numbers that are reported by governments, lets not be fools, a vast number of factors influence government lines. The truth is that we have no way of knowing how many people this disease has infected, or how many have died from it.

Will we ever know?

And when we do…. What will we do about it?

More to come soon….

posted by Mark @ 2:25 PM