AIDS Awareness

Bono, senator speak on fighting HIV virus in Africa

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 6th, 2003

Rock singer Bono joined U.S. Sen. Bill Frist on December 9, 2002, to plead for more U.S. money to fight AIDS in Africa.

"The questions that were asked in Germany [about the Holocaust] a generation later - 'How could you let that happen'' - will be asked of us," the lead singer of the group U2 said in an address to about 500 people attending a forum on protecting infants from HIV.

"It is absolute madness that at a time of unimaginable prosperity in the world, that people can be dying at this level. There are cities in Africa where a third of the people are going to die, and we have the technology" to prevent it, said Bono, a prominent AIDS...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-01-06)

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