950 dead every day

A stunning number from South Africa on daily deaths from AIDS. Add to that over 500,000 new cases of HIV every year just in South Africa. The RSA government has made some recent changes to combat the problem which appear to be moving in the right direction. It's already a tragedy lose working generations but this goes so far beyond that, often leaving children without parents which makes life that much more difficult.

The American extremist religious right/Bush administration thinks that this problem is easily solved by just promoting abstinence, but as with most of their bizarre theories (such as invading Iraq to bring democracy to the region) they are sadly wrong, again. Why do they always want to gamble with the lives of Africans and people who are not white?
digg this!