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OUTRAGEOUS! SCANDALOUS! SHAMEFUL! UNCONSCIONABLE!

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Funding Access-vs.-Prevention at 14th ICASA AIDS Conference in Nigeria I was talking with a friend last night and discussing the current state of engagement (or lack there of) of the world in addressing the AIDS pandemic that is brutalizing a third of the worlds population either directly through infection or indirectly through the suffering of those who love them. It was time to look in to this. What the heck is going on? Where are the millions that are promised? This was a day of days to ask that question. December 7 can be known again as a day that will live in infamy for a more recent, but as shameless act. With all its pseudo- compassion and promises the “help is on the way” The Bush Administration is again showing it’s true colors. In Abuja, Nigeria this week, a six-day conference known as the 14th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa , is being attended by about 7,500 representatives from around the world, a majority of them from African...