Dear Friends,
It's been a while since I've updated. So many Tasty Tuesdays missed! The dental clinic! Thanksgiving! Ahhh! It will come, I promise. But, for now I just wanted to remind everyone that yesterday was World AIDS Day.
What we need now is prevention, education, and awareness. HOPE. HIV/AIDS is so easily prevented if only people have the tools and knowledge.
"In the US, there are over 1.1 Million Americans living with HIV and more than 20% of those infected do not even know they carry the virus. It is estimated by the CDC that 56,000 new infections are occurring annually, that’s one new infection every nine and a half minutes in the US due to a disease that is completely preventable."
The NW World AIDS Day "celebrations" were underway all day yesterday and I got a chance to catch the fabulous Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on their way to tour downtown Portland. They were fierce, and fabulous. They called me "Honey", and let me sign the Veil of Remembrance, which was full of names of friends and relatives that people have lost due to HIV/AIDS.
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And the person I remembered was this.
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I don't know how many more friends I will lose to HIV, but I hope that it's none. However unrealistic that hope is. What else can a girl do, when such young people leave us before time?
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