I’ll leave the World AIDS Day comments to the Chron (whom I agree with emphatically):
Nov. 29, 2003, 5:15PM
AIDS REALITY
From city streets to globe’s corners, a true pandemic
Today is World AIDS Day, a designation to which too many people will say, “So what?” — if they have any response at all.
Perhaps buoyed by the progress made in the treatment of the HIV virus or the misimpression that the disease has no effect on them, many people have turned a blind eye.
That’s exactly the wrong response.