World AIDS Day

1 Dec 2010 - Today is World AIDS Day. In the last year a good friend was told he was HIV+, so I am thinking of him - and millions of others - today. Although HIV is no longer a dead sentence, it is still an uphill battle for many, in particular in the developing world. For example, read this testimony from a 27-year old Kenyan woman, which I picked from the MSF website. "There is a very bad thing for AIDS widows. When the husband has died, the relatives take everything from you and just leave it like that, because they know that you are going to die. They took everything from me. I had many things, but they took it away. If you go to my house now, you don't find anything that belonged to my husband. I even had no mat or mattress to sleep on. You remain just like that without anybody caring for you. I am not the only one, it happens to many."