"A Smile for Africa" Campaign

We CAN reconstruct their smiles...Let me know if you care about the africans...that,by the way...are just like us...



In an estimate researchers call conservative, one in four people in the African nations of Botswana and Zimbabwe are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
In 13 sub-Saharan African countries at least 10 percent of the population is infected with HIV, and in many capital cities the prevalence rates are 35 percent or more.
In one town on the Zimbabwean-South African border, 7 out of 10 women attending prenatal clinics in 1995 were HIV-infected.
Perhaps 90 percent of those infected in Africa are ignorant of the fact because testing is not widely available.
Life expectancy is receding in certain African countries to levels not seen since the 1960s.
In the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, deaths among children one to five years old jumped by 250 percent between 1988 and 1996.
Among East Africans, AIDS has more than doubled adult mortality in rural areas where 10 percent of the population has HIV. Even where HIV prevalence is slightly lower, AIDS accounts for four out of five deaths between the ages of 25 and 34.
Overall, Africa has experienced 83 percent of the world's AIDS deaths. Four out of five HIV-positive women in the world live in that continent. An even higher proportion of the children living with HIV in the world are in Africa--an estimated 87 percent.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• aids
• poverty
• disease
• africa
• kids
• orphans
• HIV
• requesting
• help

[tkell2112]

what is the name of this song?

[ILLYilyssa]

requiem for a dream

[ILLYilyssa]

yes,it is terrible,but we CAN help...it's a matter of wanting to help...

[davaeron666]

I want to help....but do our governments give a sh*t about Africans....I may donate all my salary to an african family, only for it to end in the pocket of corrupted dictatorship or local guerilla war mongers.

Sorry if I sound negative and all that.

[ILLYilyssa]

you might sound negative,but i sadly must agree that you could be right!

[TheOpen23]

i want to go to africa and make a diffenrce



[davaeron666]

The movie is emotional and touching. Nice editing and music. Suffering of millions on this earth must end....thanks ILLYilyssa

[djoie]

thank you for this video. It is very powerful because it shows people the reality. You are right - we can make a difference, if we choose to.

[adinaxxx]

oh god...that's terrible...