Eleni's AIDS Vaccine 3-Day -- 60 miles in 3 days (Walker #1768)
If I told you I was walking 60 miles to find a vaccine for the AIDS virus, would you support me?
I hope your answer is yes, because I am walking in the AIDS Vaccine 3-Day from West Point, NY to the United Nations in NYC.
I’m walking because I have lost friends to the disease. I am walking for all the children worldwide, my daughter’s age and younger, who aren’t blessed with a future that will include birthdays, holidays, and ordinary days.
I hope you will help out by sponsoring me . I am working very hard over the next four months to train for this event and your moral and financial support will help me every step of the way. The only donation that is too small is the one you don't make!
If you want, you can keep up with my training in the stats and diary section. Please sign the guestbook !
If you have lost someone to this dreaded disease, please give me their name so I can carry it with me along my journey.
The following are some more of the reasons I am walking:
AIDS IS NOT OVER IN AMERICA — our young people (and many who are not so young) no longer see AIDS as the deadly disease it is because of miracle medicines, but consider the side effects of these drugs that make AIDS a life sentence:
heart disease, pancreatic disorders, diabetes, bone erosion, nausea, bowel dysfunction, kidney failure, depression, memory loss, changes in immune function resulting in autoimmune diseases
2. 16,000 people become infected with HIV every day. 95% of them are the poorest of the poor. Less than 2% of those infected have access to the “miracle” drugs — protease inhibitors.
3. The average cost per year for the protease inhibitors is $12,000 — in 1999, 10,000 Americans died of AIDS because many of them couldn’t afford the drugs.
4. 75 million adults and children worldwide will die of AIDS in the next 20 years in the absence of a vaccine (the worst human catastrophe the earth has ever known).
5. 12 million children are orphaned because their parents have died from AIDS.
6. The people of Botswana are facing extinction — one of every three adults are infected; life expectancy was 62.5 years in 1990, it’s now less than 35 years of age.
7. South Africa’s Nelson Mandela says that one out of every two young people will die of AIDS in his country.
I hope your answer is yes, because I am walking in the AIDS Vaccine 3-Day from West Point, NY to the United Nations in NYC.
I’m walking because I have lost friends to the disease. I am walking for all the children worldwide, my daughter’s age and younger, who aren’t blessed with a future that will include birthdays, holidays, and ordinary days.
I hope you will help out by sponsoring me . I am working very hard over the next four months to train for this event and your moral and financial support will help me every step of the way. The only donation that is too small is the one you don't make!
If you want, you can keep up with my training in the stats and diary section. Please sign the guestbook !
If you have lost someone to this dreaded disease, please give me their name so I can carry it with me along my journey.
The following are some more of the reasons I am walking:
AIDS IS NOT OVER IN AMERICA — our young people (and many who are not so young) no longer see AIDS as the deadly disease it is because of miracle medicines, but consider the side effects of these drugs that make AIDS a life sentence:
heart disease, pancreatic disorders, diabetes, bone erosion, nausea, bowel dysfunction, kidney failure, depression, memory loss, changes in immune function resulting in autoimmune diseases
2. 16,000 people become infected with HIV every day. 95% of them are the poorest of the poor. Less than 2% of those infected have access to the “miracle” drugs — protease inhibitors.
3. The average cost per year for the protease inhibitors is $12,000 — in 1999, 10,000 Americans died of AIDS because many of them couldn’t afford the drugs.
4. 75 million adults and children worldwide will die of AIDS in the next 20 years in the absence of a vaccine (the worst human catastrophe the earth has ever known).
5. 12 million children are orphaned because their parents have died from AIDS.
6. The people of Botswana are facing extinction — one of every three adults are infected; life expectancy was 62.5 years in 1990, it’s now less than 35 years of age.
7. South Africa’s Nelson Mandela says that one out of every two young people will die of AIDS in his country.