Aids

Thursday is World AIDS awareness day. If you can, buy an AIDS Awareness Day Ribbon. If you can't - or even if you can - visit FoTAC and consider making a donation. They get money to people on the ground in South Africa, providing treatment to AIDS sufferers who need it, but can't afford it. Tragically, these number in the hundreds of thousands. Only real awareness can stop AIDS becoming a 21st century pandemic of cataclysmic proportions. Eastenders storylines may make it seem as though the battle is won - it really isn't. Even in the world's richest and freest society, treatment is not affordable for all those who need it (I won't detail the testimony behind this assertion, but the scenario is not difficult to imagine). The question before us is whether to face the crisis before or after it gets out of control. Can we afford to fail?