the rix mix

Grateful that only two people I knew died of the disease. A generation of young, creative men was decimated, we'll never know what we lost. Angry at some government funded American "faith based" groups promoting abstinence in Africa while downplaying the absolute necessity for condom use during sex, a strategy that hurts most those with the least power: women & children. Angry at South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang for not endorsing anti-retroviral drugs, & saying she might use food supplements or traditional medicines if she became infected, which is far too easy for a healthy person to predict. Glad that most of the world is waking up to the reasons for hope as well as to the danger. The enlightened support of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo & India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.