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The Orphans of AIDS foundation was formed to enhance relations among civic leaders and religious clergy challenging the two groups to work together for proactive partnership against HIV/AIDS to help the 42 million people that have the deadly disease.
I asked Ms. Buckie what motivated her to start this AIDS crusade with her son. “AIDS has already caused over 15 million orphan children worldwide, mostly in Africa. As a young girl growing up in Iowa I spend some time living as an orphan myself. And I know just how it feels to be rejected. And seeing how bad things are now around the world with the rampantly rising AIDS pandemic, I just couldn’t sit there anymore knowing something had to be done,” she said.
Caratti adds, “World health leaders fear the world is not prepared for the AIDS pandemic. And by 2010 the number of AIDS cases may more than double from 42 million people today to infected over 100 million by the year 2010 and leave in its wake over 25 million orphans, thus becoming the greatest health and economic burden known to man of any totally preventable disease.”
Ms. Buckie, who never had a formal Social Services Education said, “Every day I would read the newspaper about how the AIDS pandemic was getting worse, adding 6,000 more and more orphan children every day, and I just decided to help.
Already 30 million people have died and according to the Red Cross/Red Crescent, “AIDS will kill more people this decade than all the wars and disasters in the past 50 years combined.”
“Every day 6,000 children become the orphans of AIDS. And 15,000 new people contract the deadly HIV virus. Moreover, over 8,500 people die each and every day from AIDS. Our goal this year is to prevent one-million at-risk children from becoming the orphans of AIDS. And prevent one million people from contracting the deadly disease by 2007.” Caratti said.
Paul Caratti is an AIDS researcher and sociologist the author of The Social Terrorist. He worked closely with Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s church in Africa and toured the AIDS pandemic in war-torn Africa, where his personal experience of the African crisis permanently influenced his life.
Currently Mr. Caratti is mapping out the social trends and variable patterns of the AIDS disease as it spreads socially from one country to the next, much like a domino effect. Moreover, forecasting the financial impact predictions of AIDS-related Post-Treatment costs on a nations’ economy. Then presenting those findings to world leaders appealing to their prudence how much money this disease will cost their country in lost revenue unless they heed the United Nations AIDS warning for social change.
In addition to Paul Caratti is the founder of the National Council for HIV /AIDS Education and has planned to build the first African Dream Center. He is a gifted speaker and presents a comprehensive and compelling world-view of the AIDS pandemic of how the looming presence of AIDS threatens our world today.
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