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May 7 is World AIDS Orphans Day
May 7, 2008
May 7 is World AIDS Orphans Day. It’s a grassroots campaign that calls on donor countries to commit at least 10 percent of their AIDS funding to the needs of orphans and vulnerable children. VOA’s Joe De Capua reports.
World AIDS Orphans Day began in 2002 with a demonstration on Wall Street, the heart of New York City’s financial district. Activists carried signs that read: “What is the value of an orphan on the New York stock exchange?”
It’s estimated there are at least 15 million children worldwide who have lost one or both parents to the disease. But there are many others called vulnerable children, who are orphaned or homeless as a result of such things as other diseases, poverty, war or natural disasters. For the past 20 years, Albina du Boisrouvray has been working to help them through her FXB Foundation.
For full article, visit:
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2008-05-07-voa21.cfm
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 7 May 2008
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