AFRO-NETS> Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report - Thu, 17 Jan 2002

[Cecilia Snyder <csnyder@ccmc.org>]

Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report - Thu, 17 Jan 2002
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In State of the State Address, Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening Asks
Legislators, Public to 'Unite' to End African AIDS 'Tragedy'

Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening (D) yesterday gave his final State of 
the State address, a "nontraditional speech" that focused on issues 
"well beyond Maryland" and highlighted a conversation he had with 
former South African President Nelson Mandela about AIDS, the Balti-
more Sun reports (Nitkin/Koenig, Baltimore Sun, 1/17).  Calling the 
AIDS "tragedy" in Africa "almost invisible to the Western world," 
Glendening said that although the United States "demand[ed]" cheaper 
anthrax drugs after five Americans died last year from infection, 
"there is no global outcry, no demands made on the drug companies, no 
real response whatsoever, to 2.5 million Africans who have died of 
AIDS."  Glendening called on legislators and the public to continue 
their support of higher education, which "may well help produce a 
scientist whose breakthrough research revolutionizes" treatment for 
the disease.  "We must recognize the role racism and bigotry play in 
this heartbreaking disparity.  As a world, we must unite to end this 
terrible tragedy," Glendening said, concluding that AIDS will "not be 
solved here in Annapolis in the next 90 days.  But if we do our part 
for our state, we can send forth our own 'ripples of hope'" (Speech 
text, Baltimore Sun, 1/17).     

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