Bono og HIV/AIDS

Utdrag fra Bono (U2) sin tale til GLOBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR HIV/AIDS AWARDS i Berlin 21. apr. 04:

Because the thing that ought to be clear as we sit here tonight is not that we’ve beaten this disease [AIDS], nor that we’re even close to beating it, but that we can. But it doesn’t stop there. We are the first generation that can end not just AIDS, but extreme poverty. By that I mean the kind of stupid poverty that allows a child to die for want of food in its belly, or for want of medication readily available over the counter in any other part of the world.

For the first time in history, we have the brains, we have the cash, we have the drugs. Do we have the will?

via Mike Todd. Les hele talen her (.pdf). Besøk også DATA, en organisasjon som kjemper for å bli kvitt fattigdom og HIV/AIDS i Afrika.

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