AIDS, the real war of terror
December 1st was declared World AIDS Day by the United Nations. From California to Singapore, red ribbons were pinned all around the world in the name of awareness on Thursday. The World Health Organization and United Nations have estimated that 37.2 million people and 2.2 million children are living with AIDS today, fifty percent higher than numbers given in 1991. So far, in 2004, close to five million people have been infected with HIV. As the numbers rise, much of the world’s attention is seemingly to be focused somewhere else. As we would like to see the same attention given to terrorism being given to AIDS by nation states, the world is still in darkness. Over 15 million children have been left orphans. Furthermore, in some of the countries infected by the epidemic, the future grows slims, doctors, schoolteachers, nurses, mothers, fathers, and grandmothers are dying; only politicians are left.
University of Bridgeport
Saturday, July 12, 2025