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Associated Press (12.28.03) - Monday, December 29, 2003
Associate professor Patricia Siplon is leading the group, whose mission is to establish a permanent volunteer service program to care for people with HIV/AIDS. The group is part of the campus volunteer program Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts; nearly 75 percent of St. Michael's students take part in one of MOVE's programs while at college. In Tanzania, the students will work with AIDS widows and orphans, and HIV- positive women seeking to bring AIDS education to schools.
The students on the current mission are keeping a journal of their experiences; the Burlington Free Press is periodically printing and Web-posting their writing. In a journal entry published Sunday, Siplon said, "I hope this brief stint in a place I have come to love will help my students make the connection for themselves between the personal and the political." She said she hopes the students will return to the United States "motivated to advocate for a more just world and for finding a solution to the AIDS pandemic."
Nearly 8 percent of the east African nation's 1.5 million people have HIV/AIDS. Each year, 140,000 die from AIDS, many without medical care. Tanzania has an external debt of almost $7 billion. Payments on the debt's interest and principal take up 21 percent of the nation's budget - the same amount devoted annually to education, water, health care and roads combined.
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