http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/30/laura-bush-on-aids-malaria/ The Campaign to Make Poverty History Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:20:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/30/laura-bush-on-aids-malaria/#comment-527963 Brad Ogilvie Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:26:30 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/30/laura-bush-on-aids-malaria/#comment-527963 I think it's great the George, Laura and Barbara are looking at AIDS in Africa. I can't help but be suspect of their motivations or their choices of arenas when they say so little about the very city they live in (Washington, DC), where one out of every twenty people has HIV, and where many classrooms have no air conditioning or heat, and where classrooms don't have computers, and where parents with HIV are shooting up in the parks adjacent to their children's schools. I wonder what it's going to take to bridge this divide between the White House and inner-city Washington, and I wonder what other blinders remain in-tact in Laura's work in Africal I think it’s great the George, Laura and Barbara are looking at AIDS in Africa. I can’t help but be suspect of their motivations or their choices of arenas when they say so little about the very city they live in (Washington, DC), where one out of every twenty people has HIV, and where many classrooms have no air conditioning or heat, and where classrooms don’t have computers, and where parents with HIV are shooting up in the parks adjacent to their children’s schools. I wonder what it’s going to take to bridge this divide between the White House and inner-city Washington, and I wonder what other blinders remain in-tact in Laura’s work in Africal

]]>