interesting tactic
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transmothraBono is sucking the toes of the pharmaceutical industry in a ploy to get them to develop an AIDS vaccine, while encouraging other so-called celebrity-activists to do likewise. oddly (horrifically, in fact), only Merck appears to be working on a potential vaccine, which Bono now says may be due to the anti-pharmaceutical-industry activism of himself and his peers. bold move. i hope it works. it seems awfully desperate, but these are desperate times.
the November issue of CMJ (yes, i know it's December, but this mag is becoming increasingly erratic with its publishing dates) has an excellent sampler, the best they've put out in a long time. one caveat: there is one song so incredibly terrible, you'll be humming it for days. oy vey.
some AIDS facts, courtesy of unaids.org:
- 42 million people (est.) are "living" with HIV/AIDS today.
- that's 2 million more than last year, or the population of the state of Nebraska.
- women make up a full 50% of cases.
- China is only just now starting to take measures, and estimates that by the end of the decade, they may have more than 10 million cases in their country alone.
- 5 million new infections (worldwide) annually now, and that number grows every year.
- 3.1 million people died as a result of AIDS in 2002.
the November issue of CMJ (yes, i know it's December, but this mag is becoming increasingly erratic with its publishing dates) has an excellent sampler, the best they've put out in a long time. one caveat: there is one song so incredibly terrible, you'll be humming it for days. oy vey.
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interesting indeed
i wonder how many of these cases are children????
Tell you what i think i gotta go for Moe Loughran (The Tulip Tree) - {awesome song} for the NewMusicAward Artist for 2003....
something's gonna give
Date: 2002-12-04 07:14 pm (UTC)DECEMBER 2002
Number of people living with HIV/AIDS Total 42 million
Adults 38.6 million
Women 19.2 million
Children under 15 years 3.2 million
People newly infected with HIV in 2002 Total 5 million
Adults 4.2 million
Women 2 million
Children under 15 years 800,000
AIDS deaths in 2002 Total 3.1 million
Adults 2.5 million
Women 1.2 million
Children under 15 years 610 000
then we have