December 1 2005.
World Aids Day brings in a plethora of responses, write-ups and blogs from various folks all around the world. It's heartening to know the awareness all around but Alas! we still find such cases and is increasing by leaps and bounds.
Sourin's blog on AIDS and his thoughts on homo-sexuality are welcome but somehow I see a conflict of statement. Either you like it or do not - there is no way in between...well, I do believe in his statement "Let's LIVE AND LET LIVE."
Countries like Africa and India have come a long way in spreading the Aids awareness and the 'think-tank' of India are coming up with various innovative ways to educate and preach our people. One of the recent example is 'Buladi'. Check out
here.
Moreover, check out some statistical details on poverty, debt and AIDS in this
article. While going thru various links, I found out that there are umpteen of children and families who are a part of the growing population of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC). Check out
here and other details by UNAIDS.
Finally, its sad to know about all the statistics, good to know that there are many organizations working towards this cause and pleased to see a revival of these write-ups during World Aids Day...but, are we doing anything for this? Question to be asked to oneself and if we decide to do something, let's try to strenghten the community via Project HOPE.
While having having my cereal this morning, Kalind (my nephew) started talking about an incident in Meerut, India about a group of girls being thrashed and bashed by the local police. Well, another feather in our cap!
