This from Jon Snow's daily email yesterday:
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"Brief Snowmail tonight: Nelson Mandela's last surviving son has died of AIDS.
Characteristically , Mr Mandela has come out and said so immediately. He's complained that people still wont tell the truth about AIDS. He says we must talk about it as we talk about TB.
This on a day when we learn that AIDS claims the lives of the equivalent of all those who have perished in the Indian Ocean Tsunami roughly every eighteen days."
Every 18 days? A chilling thought indeed... let's hope that the public and Government can be similarly mobilised on this - still stigma carrying - issue.
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