[afro-nets] Change or Perish, Anti-AIDS Activist Tells (fellow) Africans

["Marcy Bloom" <marcybloom@comcast.net>]

Africans must break their silence and stop treating sexual education as a forbidden subject, if they want to survive HIV/AIDS, an epidemic that is increasingly threatening to destroy the ?beauty of Africa,? a renowned Zambian activist, Princess Kasune Zulu, said.

?My brothers and sisters, taboos are killing us,? Zulu said. ?Enough is enough. Until we accept that HIV and AIDS exist among us, we are fighting a losing battle.?

Zulu, who has been living with HIV for 10 years, spoke at North View Junior High School in Brooklyn Park, where dozens of African immigrants, health providers and anti-HIV/AIDS advocates gathered on Dec. 15 to observe African World AIDS Day. Zulu expressed concerns that ? 25 years after HIV/AIDS became known ? many Africans still saw the disease as taboo, a factor she said has contributed to the rampant spread of the epidemic.

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