the repeat announcement of all CAPTIONs

[cosmicdot]

W: I went that-a-way ... he-he-smirk-snicker ... seriously, folks, this is the new, improved $15 billion dollar plan I announce every year ... and, then, cut the annual budget amount that no one tells you about ... plan ... and, even if I didn't cut the annual budget, if you think it's enough moola ... you're not good at math like me either ...

resident George W. Bu$h addresses community activists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 23, 2004. Bu$h announced that the nation of Vietnam would be added under his $15 billion dollar plan to combat AIDS globally. REUTERS/Mannie Garcia

Africa, as a continent, has the highest number of HIV/AIDS victims in the world, and the virus continues to spread. So far, the AIDS epidemic has left 13 million orphans in Africa, which is more than anywhere else.

Half of the HIV positive adults acquire AIDS in their early 30s; they die before the age of 35, leaving a generation of children to be raised by poor grandparents or to head their own groups on the streets and rubbish dumps.


http://www.chrf.org/orphanages3.html

Aids in Africa has reached pandemic proportions, with 40 million AIDS orphans predicted by 2010. An organization called CHRF is saving lives affected by AIDS.

Furthermore, 2.2 million out of the 3 million aids deaths worldwide occurred in Africa in 2002.

Life expectancy has dropped drastically by half from age 68 to 34. Current statistics state that over 13 million in Africa have died from this disease--almost 3 million of them were children.

20% of all age groups are HIV positive in South Africa, 34% in Zimbabwe, and 39% Botswana.


http://www.aids-in-africa.org/




At the World Bank, an internal study found what South African economist Alan Whiteside ridiculed as a "silver lining" in the plague.

"If the only effect of the AIDS epidemic were to reduce the population growth rate, it would increase the growth rate of per capita income in any plausible economic model," said the June 1992 report by the bank's population and human resources department. Exactly that had happened in the 14th century, the report said, with the bubonic plague. The report did not conclude that AIDS would be a benefit to Africa, even in strictly economic terms, but it hardly marked a clarion call to action.

"Only the World Bank would put that on paper," Whiteside said.

http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/Population/AIDS.asp

who is * taking direction from?
whose side is the Toxic Texan on?

[CO Liberal]

1. "C'mon....Pull My Finger!!"

:-)

[underpants]

2. It wasn't ME who said that it was...uh.......THAT guy see

:bounce:

[Papa]

3. You see, this is how Saddam looks now cause I have his gun. I have his gun

[johnnie]

4. "And our guys go Bang! Bang!....

And kill those evil brown skinned people"