after watching that special i wanted to cry
it appears that Uganda has the best approach where the president talks about Aids and condoms and makes the people more aware of the dangers of promiscuity etc its on every billboard, he speaks on it constantly. of all the presidents interviewed i respected him because he doesn't play games, he is direct. Although even he admits that there is not enough money to get AZT to current aids patients so without money they will just have to suffer the consequences. He is focusing on prevention since they don't have the money to save those already infected. His country has lots of aids patients but the cases have decreased like 50% over the last 14 years due to prevention
I was not pleased with the president of South Africa or the Zimbawee president whom need to go get some advice from their neighbor Uganda. Interesting enough it was after the Uganda president sent some troops to Cuba for training that Castro told him that several of his soldiers had tested positive for aids, which is what first alerted the president of Uganda to the seriousness of Aids among his people. now ain't that something
anyway i was wondering what AKA can do to help these countries, i know we do alot in terms of education with their disadvantaged youths, for example my chapter is sending dictionaries and encyclopedias to countries in Africa via the Links. But what can we do to help raise money which seems to be the call of the hour? any ideas.
[This message has been edited by PositivelyAKA (edited June 28, 2000).]