Political Quotes

“I stand here, along with my colleagues, to commend the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee) for her leadership on the issue of the AIDS pandemic internationally. My colleague already read the declaration from the Barcelona conference. I am going to read the whereas clauses, because I think they set forth specifically the status of this AIDS pandemic internationally. "Whereas every single day AIDS claims 8,500 lives, or the equivalent of three World Trade Center disasters daily; Whereas by December 2001, 40 million people were living with HIV- AIDS, and by 2005 an estimated 100 million will be infected; Whereas more than 40 million children, most of them in developing nations, will be orphaned by AIDS by 2010; Whereas the World Health Organization this year has stated that the antiretroviral treatment is medically essential and has issued specific treatment guidelines, monitoring standards, and regimen recommendations; Whereas those on treatment represent less than 2 percent of all those infected with HIV because such treatment is almost completely unavailable in developing nations; Whereas, over 500 nongovernmental organizations globally have endorsed the Barcelona March for Life, which demands treatment access to at least 2 million people in the developing world by the time of the 2004 International Conference on AIDS in Bangkok; Whereas these organizations represent AIDS activists from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Australia, Europe, Centr…”