Thursday, December 08, 2011

AIDS, a decade later, Bono

Bono has campaigned much for the Aids issue in Africa.

His recent NY Times article highlights America's role in the progress, naming names and milestones.

This quote captures the heart of the campaign and message to the west that got people's attention:
And all of us who witnessed these dedicated African workers issuing death sentence after death sentence still feel fury and shame. AIDS set off an almost existential crisis in the West. It forced us to ask ourselves the big, uncomfortable questions, like whether capitalism, which invented the global village and kept it well stocked with stuff, could also create global solutions. Whether we were interested in charity... or justice.

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