Just Having Medicine Isn't Equivalent To Medical

This Is The Book I Never Read ~ These Are The Words I Never Said ~ This Is The Path I'll Never Tread ~ These Are The Dreams I'll Dream Instead

I Understand What It Is For A Woman To Want To Protect Their Children And Give Them The Best They Can.

The Contrast Of The World That We Live In And The World That Is Here In Aspen And The World Inhabited By Women Who Have No Resources, Little Or No, Very Few Resources - Huge Disparity.

There's Always Darkness Around, And If You Focus On The Darkness, You Don't Know Where To Go. But If You Direct Yourself At The Light - There It Is! It's Right There.

There's So Much Stigma Around Hiv/aids. It's A Challenging Issue, And The People That Already Have Been Tested And Know Their Status Find It Very, Very Hard To Disclose Their Status, To Live With That Virus, And To Even Seek Out The Kind Of Information They Need. This Experience Of Going To South Africa A Decade Ago Really Woke Me Up To The Scale Of The Hiv/aids Pandemic In Sub-saharan Africa, How It Was Affecting Women And Their Children. I Haven't Been Able To Walk Away From It.