Obama announced new resolve to combat the HIV-AIDS menace. Wish it would set in motion a series of initiatives that will help fight and eradicate the virus. Wish it would cause some puritan thinking away from the global geopolitics of HIV-AIDS.
Reports on the World AIDS Day say it’s more of a manageable chronic infection and not a life-threatening one now. World Health Organization (WHO) says, “Increased access to HIV services resulted in a 15% reduction of new infections over the past decade and a 22% decline in Aids-related deaths in the last five years.”
But reports warn of complacency, one thing that is feared – a direct outcome of the global geopolitics of HIV-AIDS in holding, releasing and distributing funds. Funds need to flow for at least a decade for the LIGHT OF HEALING to SPREAD.
Let’s see what a Guardian report says “The gains made on HIV have been overshadowed by the decision last week by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria to cancel all new funding for the three diseases until 2014. A similar disregard for health spending has been demonstrated by world leaders gathered in Busan this week to discuss aid effectiveness, indicating that developments at the Global Fund are symptomatic of a wider trend for global leaders to take their eyes off the ball with respect to health.”
Much has been said and debated in last few months after HIV-AIDS completed its 30 years in June this year and hopefully, sanity will prevail. Obama’s words need to be the beginning; beginning of a life of dignified days for people, who for no reason, face the social stigma; beginning of a phase of healing.
Life finds its flow. Light finds its intensity.
LIGHT, THOU ART THE HEALING. LIGHT, THOU ART THE SOUL.
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