It’s World Aids Day
It’s World Aids Day Hi everyone,
I just thought that I’d remind everyone that it is World Aids Day.
Being diagnosed with BC puts most of us on this website behind the ‘glass screen’ where we can see other people carrying on with their lives normally but we are separated from them because we have come face-to-face with the possibility of our own mortality.
But have a look around. There are others behind the glass screen too, some of whom have HIV/AIDS and don’t have access to Western medicine.
Hope that you are all going to get your ribbons.
Best wishes,
Sue
Yes thanks for reminding us Sue.
I’ll try to find my red ribbon. I think breast cancer activists have a lot to learn from the more radical edge of AIDS activism. The pink ribbon has become fluffy but I think not the red ribbon.
Jane
World Aids Day I think World Aids Day achieved some useful publicity for the plight of people with AIDs across the world. I read a really moving account, in the Guardian, of young children being left memory boxes by their dying parents.
But I am not sure that we can count AIDS activists as being successful when the death toll across the globe is so terrifyingly high and the infection rate still increasing in many countries including Britain.
But then again I’m not sure what an AIDS activist is any more than I know what a breast cancer ‘activist’ is. I keep hearing this phrase recently but honestly don’t know what it means. Can anyone explain please? Thanks.
Best wishes
Roisin