Comments on: The Age of AIDS http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/05/31/the_age_of_aids/ Just another Lives in Focus weblog Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:45:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Anthony Khusi http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/05/31/the_age_of_aids/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Anthony Khusi Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:04:30 +0000 http://netmusician.org/~livesinfocus/wordpress/?p=51#comment-41 Just ran through your site and feel that you are doing terrific work! I'm from Kenya and more focused on AIDS/HIV's face there having lost two cousins from this, so this is on one hand new, to hear of it from India, and yet the problems faced are very similar, particularly cultural taboos in talking openly about this disease. Globally, we can only hide away from this so long before it rolls over us. Many governments, many leaders are not facing up to this at all. Two or three years ago the Kenyan vice president (Kijana Wamalwa - you can google him and even the BBC orbituary sidesteps the AIDS issue) died of AIDS (and I should say allegedly as I don't have firsthand knowledge). Rather than seize this opportunity to talk to the whole nation at once, it was very much side stepped (although in a funny way, everyone seemed to know!) You are doing good, meaningful, needed work and I wish you the best in this endeavor. Just ran through your site and feel that you are doing terrific work!
I’m from Kenya and more focused on AIDS/HIV’s face there having lost two cousins from this, so this is on one hand new, to hear of it from India, and yet the problems faced are very similar, particularly cultural taboos in talking openly about this disease.
Globally, we can only hide away from this so long before it rolls over us. Many governments, many leaders are not facing up to this at all. Two or three years ago the Kenyan vice president (Kijana Wamalwa – you can google him and even the BBC orbituary sidesteps the AIDS issue) died of AIDS (and I should say allegedly as I don’t have firsthand knowledge). Rather than seize this opportunity to talk to the whole nation at once, it was very much side stepped (although in a funny way, everyone seemed to know!)
You are doing good, meaningful, needed work and I wish you the best in this endeavor.

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