Whats poverty got to do with AIDS?
The Make Poverty History campaign is rooted in the conviction that 2005 can be the turning point in the fight to eliminate poverty from the face of the earth. The mesh of poverty and HIV/AIDS is the deadliest combination on the planet, and there’s not the slightest possibility of confronting poverty so long as AIDS runs its savage course. To make poverty history requires making AIDS history.’ Stephen Lewis, UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan’s special envoy on AIDS in Africa, launching the Canadian Make Poverty History Campaign. Worldwide, 95% of the 40 million people living with HIV and AIDS live in developing countries. Those countries, already struggling with unjust trade, crippling debt, and ineffective and insufficient aid, have been shellshocked by AIDS. In countries like ours, HIV positive people can access drugs that can keep them alive and healthy for up to twenty years, but the world’s poor are dying from AIDS in their millions because they lack access to care and treatment. It i
