Today is World AIDS Da
y! Plenty of people and organizations will be spouting statistics and agendas today – all good intentioned – so I will leave that to them. HIV/AIDS is a thread of our human fabric in the U.S. and, as we all know, around the World. No longer serving the role as exotic or fringe, AIDS is every bit infectious as it is chronic, taboo as it is mainstream.
Earlier this year, the White House released a new National HIV/AIDS strategy. This report highlights key high risk populations, but also acknowledges that prevention, infection, and treatment can not be disconnected from the nation as a whole. Abroad, there is SO MUCH happening in all facets of AIDS that it is mind-boggling to think where to begin…
The Organic Health Response on Mfangano, on this and every day, is harnessing the power of social networks, cultural capital, and an organic ethos to fight the rolling tide of HIV/AIDS in their community. OHR represents a comprehensive and multi-thread approach to appropriately taking on AIDS.
In all its human pain and glory, AIDS is something horrible that so often brings something so wonderful out of people. Ekialo Kiona, as the whole community, the World needs to keep fighting on.
*Image is author’s own – Members of the EK Sisterhood Exchange Program (Mfangano Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya).
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