From:
Stephen M. Apatow Founder,
Director of Research & Development Humanitarian
Resource Institute Humanitarian University
Consortium Graduate Studies Center
for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law Phone:
203-668-0282 Email:
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Analysis
of World AIDS Day 2011 - The $31.7 Billion Question
It
was heart warming to see the tremendous international response and
global media coverage of the events associated with World AIDS Day 2011.
"By 2003, 15 million
children under 18 had been orphaned by HIV/AIDS
worldwide. About 12 million of these live in sub-Saharan Africa,
and
it is expected that this number will have risen to more than 18 million
by 2010. Most of the AIDS
orphans who live outside of Africa live
in
Asia, where the total number of orphans - orphaned for all reasons -
exceeds 87 million. There is
however insufficient information in Asia to provide figures for the
number of AIDS orphans in individual countries."
For
the sake of discussion, let's say these 87 million children are
AIDS Orphans, place them in the camp of severe poverty and allocate
$1/day to their survival for food and shelter. This comes out to
$87
million per day times 365 for the year, giving us a price tag of $31.7
Billion. If we committed all of Bill Gates Net worth in 2011 ($59 Billion) to this cause
alone, we have enough to fund the relief initiatives for the AIDS
orphans in Asia for about 2 years.
To
date, The Global Fund has committed US$
22.6 billion in 150 countries to support large-scale prevention,
treatment and care programs to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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World
AIDS Day - Rock The World for HIV/AIDS The United Nations Arts
Initiative engages the grassroots and decision making level in 193
countries. "The beginning of
the end of AIDS is now
in sight – we must get to Zero new HIV infections, Zero discrimination,
Zero AIDS-related deaths. On World AIDS Day, choose your action – make
it happen!" - UNAIDS:
2011 World AIDS Day campaign. See also: UNAIDS
World AIDS Day report 2011 (PDF)
In The Spotlight
Stephen
M. Apatow Founder,
Director of Research & Development Humanitarian
Resource Institute Humanitarian University
Consortium Graduate Studies Center
for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law Phone:
203-668-0282 Email:
s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net Internet:
www.humanitarian.net
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Nations Arts Initiative Arts
Integration Into Education Url:
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