Brought over from the October 2007 SOLID discussion thread:

Dear Meron and All,

I have just joined this family of Ned.com and i have learnt of the wonderful jobs you are doing in Salt Spring agaist the pandemic that is revaging SubSaharan African.I would indeed wish to be part of this thread as a concerted effort,and as a victim because of the region where i come from and particularly my village Town, Nangongera,paya subcounty,Tororo District in eastern Uganda where much attention has not been paid yet Aids claims lives there day after day and no one takes keen interest in the situation.The Ugandan nation with generalisation can say there is a decline in pevalence rates,but this is not very representive with what is on the ground. In my community there is still no or less awareness created about the deadly disease.Infact most of people there, think the disease is non existant therefore resorted to unprotected sex and polygamy is at rise there, which to me is dangerious not only to my community in Tororo,but also the whole country and the world over. Worse still the few who are informed about the disease have limited access to ARVs.So if some thing is not done such as sentisation and instensfied access to drugs, i'm afraid the whole generation could easily disappear.

Gerald Wandera Obbo.

Poster for the Saturday night "We Continue Forward" event. Thanks Phil!

Thanks for highlighting the "We Continue Forward" poster. It's Phil and Maggie's presentation that we will be doing as part of the SOLID workshop (as well as the Global Peace Tiles Project) at the the 2008 Change Conference this Saturday. I'll be doing the Maggie part as she will be away. YIKES!!! "We Continue Forward" is the English translation for "Tuendelee Mbele" (try saying that twice in a presentation!) the peer HIV/AIDS educator group that Phil and Maggie are championing in the Export Processing Zones (EPZ) of Ruaraka (just north of Nairobi), Kenya.

Mark asked: Gerald, I'm curious, if people are dying of aids day after day, why is it that you think most people think it is non-existant?