Yahoo News - AIDS Day Is Observed Around the Globe
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I've been very busy, and to you Christian bloggers who may be reading this, please consider this a standing invitation to join the blog team. Ok, on to the news of the week. Perhaps the most significant event of the week was the commemoration of Word AIDS Day. The pestilence prophecy of Luke 21:11 leads us to consider many different types of infections diseases but none of have been as destructive as HIV/AIDS. Those of us living in the developed West tend to think of HIV/AIDS as a manageable disease, but to many people in the developing world it is a true pandemic, a scourge that is eroding hopes for economic development by decimating entire generations of workers and at the same time increasing demands on states for healthcare and social services. While the medical community warns of the potential for a new strain of the flu to become the next pandemic, most of the world continues to struggle in the face of the existing HIV/AIDS crisis.