On the recordNovember 29, 2001
according to UNAIDS, each day 17,000 people die from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria worldwide. While the world's attention is appropriately focused on September 11 and our new war on international terrorism, we cannot ignore this ongoing tragedy. We have a tragedy occurring daily with HIV and AIDS, a tragedy on the scale of the black plague of the Middle Ages. The United States, as has been mentioned earlier, should be putting at least $1 billion in the global fund to fight HIV and AIDS. In Zimbabwe, for example, AIDS has taken so many lives that agricultural output has decreased by 50 percent in the past 5 years. By 2005 there will be more than 10 million orphan children in Africa. The number of AIDS deaths can be expected to grow within the next 10 years to more than double the number of deaths caused by all other illnesses that we know. We can do more. We must do more. It is the right thing to do more.
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