A Love poem: Final breath!

Never have the words of Fred Banard been more proven than in a recently published book of black and white photography and collected poems and messages from Africa, aptly titled, A Love Poem: Final Breath.

Statistics are beyond frightening. The pandemic of AIDS on the African continent cries out loudly for help and compassion.

Home to only 10 percent of the world’s population, Africa is home as well to 70 percent of adults and 80 percent of children alive in the world today infected with HIV. An estimated 600,000 infants are infected through mother-to-child transmission each year. The result: 12 million orphans, a number projected to rise to 15 million by 2010. These figures are a result of the caring homework of Michael Kelly of The Washington Post.

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