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Miami Herald - November 27, 2004
"Just for a moment, imagine the media hysteria and global outrage if 25 million Americans, many of them children, died from a treatable disease because the medicine was too costly," Keys writes in the Dec. 4 issue of Billboard. "Imagine if another 42 million people were infected and had no hope of paying for lifesaving treatment. . . . This is exactly what is happening throughout sub-Saharan Africa."
Keys, who recently traveled to Africa, points out that UNAIDS estimates 100 million will be infected with AIDS by the end of this decade.
"I believe this should be as important as the war on terrorism; as important as rebuilding impoverished countries like Afghanistan or Iraq; as important as peace in the Middle East," she continues. "This should be as important as if our own daughters and sons were dying."
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