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Zimbabwe Children: A Generation in Peril
Posted on March 30, 2005
In I Promise Africa, Jerry Henry shows a few faces of children living with AIDS in South Africa. In
Zimbabwe alone, 1 in 5 children is an AIDS orphan and 1 child dies of AIDS every 15 minutes. Of the 40 million people suffering worldwide, Zimbabwe is experiencing the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. Frunk Guni of AlterNet explains that the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing this African region are inadequate international and local funding, weak political response on an international level to punish President Mugabe and his government for alleged human rights abuses, flawed electoral laws and an unpalatable land reform and redistributing program.
It is time for the global community to act. Zimbabwe is facing "a long-term development disaster for the region on a scale never witnessed before; yet the major limitations of the response to AIDS have been the failure of others to act effectively."
READ the article, Death by Denial