World AIDS Day 2011: Three generations reflect on the evolution of an epidemic

It is Dec. 1. It is time, again, to mark World AIDS Day. As with winter, soon to follow, one might say that AIDS is an epidemic that came in like a lion and – one hopes, eventually – goes out like lamb. As long as it just goes.

At the first World AIDS Day, 1988, Amari Ice was only a few months old. José Gutierrez was still in Mexico, studying to be a journalist. Pat Hawkins was already a six-year veteran in the fight against the disease.

As the sad marker returns, tens of millions have died. Millions more carry the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) understood to cause AIDS. Millions around the world continue to be infected annually. Far fewer than in years past, however, actually go on to develop AIDS. When the disease was newer, it was evident. In any gay neighborhood, one could find infected men bearing the lesions of Kaposi’s sarcoma, suffering from wasting syndrome, or otherwise carrying some likely fatal burden. In 2011, that might seem a world away, with the infection once seen as precursor to soon-to-follow death, now often managed as a chronic disease, routinely undetectable.

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3 Comments

  1. December 1, 2011

    so true indeedfree u couldnt have said it better

  2. December 1, 2011

    WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT THE PERSONS WHO WILLFULLY SPREAD AIDS.

  3. ineedfree
    December 1, 2011

    biological and environment warefare have two main objectives:

    1: to create distractions from priority issues that they want to evade

    2: to destroy the races that are a threat to their superpower status in their created slogan(golbal village).

    so that critical issues will be dashed under the rug….we African people are duty bound to remind the world of the debt owed to us….

    We monkey the superpowers after they have trained a few individuals to “advocate” issues that will fulfill their agenda….to distract…

    They give rights to animals(dogs et all), homos, just name them…
    they go as far as given days to every conceivable element on earth(including earth itself).

    They refuse to look into the rights of african peolpe who are disenfranchised in this world because of the long term effect of SLAVERY.

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