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In Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Swaziland, OVER 1/3 OF THE ADULT POPULATION IS HIV-POSITIVE.
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Our generation will be judged "HOW WE STOOD AROUND WITH WATERING CANS AS AN ENTIRE CONTINENT WENT U IN FLAMES. OR NOT." - Bono, on the obligation to fight AIDS. (Chicago Sun-Times, 12/5/03)
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ONE OUT OF EVERY THREE WOMEN in the Americas is a victim of sexual violence.
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"We use motorcycles, trucks, bicycles. We use nurses and local healers to go to the farthest villages and farms to test for the disease and to deliver medications that will save lives. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THE MEDICATIONS GET THERE; WHAT MATTERS IS THEY DO GET THERE." - President George W. Bush (HIV Policy Speech, 1/31/03)
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EVERY DAY,8,000 PEOPLE ARE KILLED and 14,000 people are newly infected by HIV/AIDS.
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"No war on the face of the world is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic. I was a soldier. I KNOW OF NO ENEMY IN WAR MORE INSIDIOUS OR VICIOUS THAN AIDS, an enemy that poses a clear and present danger to the world. The war against AIDS has no front lines. We must wage it on every front."
Secretary of State Colin Powell, addressing the U.N. Special Session on AIDS, 7/23/01
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In Latin America and the Caribbean, MORE THAN 130 MILLION PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE SAFE DRINKING WATER in their homes, and only 86 million are connected to adequate sanitation systems.
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"A receptionist at a nursing home in Texas told a woman that the PATIENT HOLDING HER BABY MIGHT GIVE IT AIDS" (ACLU, HIV & Civil Rights, 2003)
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Told that Henan Province is an epicenter of AIDS, with huge numbers of cases and deaths, Zhao Pingyuan shook his head. "THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THAT," HE SAID. "IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ON TELEVISION IF PEOPLE HAD DIED OF AIDS." (NY Times, 12/2/03)
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EVERY FIVE MINUTES, an Indian woman dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. (Washington post)
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"This is an emergency - it's not a joke, cholera is appalling when you see it. Young kids sitting with drips on stone floors, or lying in their own vomit and diarrhoea ... if you see it once, you never want to see it again. IT'S A PREVENTABLE, TREATABLE SOCIAL DISEASE. It's everybody's responsibility." -Chris McIvor, of Save the Children UK
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