Comments on: New AIDS Figures Released http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/27/new-aids-figures-released/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:41:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: sammi http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/27/new-aids-figures-released/#comment-529002 sammi Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:14:21 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/27/new-aids-figures-released/#comment-529002 Great work on breaking down the numbers and putting them in perspective for us josh, thanx. the national media reports can spin this in a way that attempts to blame the UN on the overcalculations of the past in an unfair way. improved methodology may embarrassingly bump the charting process now, but in years to come we will have a more accurate paradigm reflected. No denying that 33.2 million people living with this contageious disease without a cure at the moment is still a horrid pandemic. and the kids. not just the 11.4 orphans, but those who victims themselves. and an evening with the African Children's Choir should knock us up along side the head that these kids are not unlike ours in beauty and talent and potential, just in need of opportunities, and those who have seen this gang of kids agree that they are gracious and appear quite happy (inspite of their lot in life) and indeed are overcomers. i wonder how my son would feel as an AIDS orphan, if he would be one of the very few to be in a group like this, while the ratio of a good half-million to one of these performers are still back in africa. that's a heartbreak. we have a lot of work to do, i'm grateful for this campaign to help put feet and voice to my broken heart for them. and two and a half million strong, i'm in great company. stay close, sammi in seattle. Great work on breaking down the numbers and putting them in perspective for us josh, thanx. the national media reports can spin this in a way that attempts to blame the UN on the overcalculations of the past in an unfair way. improved methodology may embarrassingly bump the charting process now, but in years to come we will have a more accurate paradigm reflected.

No denying that 33.2 million people living with this contageious disease without a cure at the moment is still a horrid pandemic. and the kids. not just the 11.4 orphans, but those who victims themselves. and an evening with the African Children’s Choir should knock us up along side the head that these kids are not unlike ours in beauty and talent and potential, just in need of opportunities, and those who have seen this gang of kids agree that they are gracious and appear quite happy (inspite of their lot in life) and indeed are overcomers. i wonder how my son would feel as an AIDS orphan, if he would be one of the very few to be in a group like this, while the ratio of a good half-million to one of these performers are still back in africa. that’s a heartbreak.

we have a lot of work to do, i’m grateful for this campaign to help put feet and voice to my broken heart for them. and two and a half million strong, i’m in great company.

stay close,

sammi in seattle.

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