Article: COLUMN: Celebrities saving babies from AIDS?

Brian Hartley
University Wire
12-22-2006
(Dakota Student) (U-WIRE) GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Briefly imagine this totally hypothetical and totally realistic situation.

You are a 6-year-old child living in a Third World African nation. In this particular nation, pretty much everyone has or will soon have HIV. Your parents died of AIDS, your older siblings have it and, barring an unprecedented 2006 Jesus Christ Comeback Tour, you probably will eventually have it too. Shit, you might already have it and just don't know it.

And we aren't talking about the festive, I'm-Magic-Johnson-I-Still-Do-My-Wife HIV, my friend. We're talking bleeding-lesion, socially-ostracizing HIV, the kind that makes a ...

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