Social Injustice: Part 1

AIDS- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

AIDS is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our day. It has already orphaned 15 million children

Every week, AIDS claims as many lives as American fatalities in the Vietnam War. Since it was discovered, AIDS has killed nearly 30 million people--equal to the combined populations of Arizona and Texas, and nearrly 10 times the number of earthquake fatalities in the last century.

Food Shortages are a big problem. By 2020, AIDS will have claimed the lives of at least one-fifth of southern Africa's agriculture workers.

Sub-Saharan Africa has 64% of the world's HIV cases--more than any other area of the world. But skyrocketing infection rates in Russia, China, and India threaten similar or worse epidemics in these regions in the near future. THERE IS NO VACCINE against HIV/AIDS

6,000 children are orphaned by AIDS every day. IF all of these children held hands, they would stretch five and a half times across the United States. By 2011, this virtual chain will reach around the world......That is in 5 years.

While African countries have suffered the most AIDS deaths to date, the virus that causes AIDS is currently spreading fastest in Russia--where the infection rate grew 257% in just 3 years.

So what can we do...go to World Vision and check it out...

"Whatever you did for one of the least of these...you did for me."
Matthew 25:40