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RIGHTS RESERVED, REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART W ITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. The Portland Observer-Oregon’s Oldest Multicultural Publication-is a member of the National Newspaper Association-Founded in 1885, and The National Advertising Repre sentative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and The West Coast Black Publishers Association • Serving Portland and Vancouver. We Need War Aainst AIDS Terrorism Fear Erodes Civil Rights O ne year after the Sept. 11 te rro ris t a tta c k s irre v o c a b ly c h a n g e d th e la n d s c a p e o f A m erica, the governm ent re sponse threatens to cause irre vocable harm to the U.S. C onsti tution, according to University o f Oregon law professor Robert L.Tsai. “The Justice D epartm ent's re fusal to release the nam es o f doz ens o f suspects w ho were d e tained after the attacks threatens to erode civil liberties for all Ameri September 11,2002 Robert L. Tsai can be reached at 541-346-3691 or by e-mail at rtsai @ law. uoregon. edu. T B y S alih B ooker , or $2.5 billion per year. This condom s and safe-sex educa EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF price tag is m odest compared tion, are essential. W om en A frica A ction with the sums quickly appropri m ust have the right and pow er ated in response to Sept. 11. to control their sexual choices. W hether measured by num bers killed or nations wounded, AIDS is now acknowledged Treatrnent, including access to by econom ies upended or as the w orst plague hum an antiretrovirals, m ust be avail fam ilies crushed, the AIDS kind has every faced. The new able to provide hope for sur pandem ic is a m uch deadlier U.N. estim ates fo r 2001 are vival and an incentive to be global threat than that posed chilling: 3 million more dead, 5 tested. H ealth system s m ust by terrorist groups. Butalm ost m illion m ore HIV infections, be given the capacity to fight no one draw s the logical c o n 40 m illion people now living back by treating diseases and clusion: T he w ar on A ID S is with HI V /A ID S -28 million of by blocking HIV transmission from m others to new borns. more important than Years from now, the w ar on terror people will ask about ism. AIDS, as with the E v e n th o u g h Holocaust or the C o n g ress is c u r Rwandan genocide: How rently considering could they have known - increasing annual and failed to act? Small classes Real-world instructors Easy transfer Low cost « U .S. funding for co m b atin g A ID S - Salih Booker, executive directorof Africa Action. w globally, with atotal If you think these add up to a great education, you’ve already passed your first test. P o rtlan d C o m m u n ity C o lle g e College that fits your life. For information call 503-977-4519. www.pcc.edu to carry out these efforts, notes U.N. Special E nvoy Stephen Lewis. “W e have, all over the (A f rican) continent, individual r projects and program s that are successful and the frustration • lies in our inability to take them that could possibly them in Africa. Since the start to scale,” L ew is said. “(L ack reach $1.2 billion, it of the infection, 22 million lives o f dollars) is the single m ost still is not nearly have been lost w orldw ide, inhibiting factor.” enough. U.N . Secretary- more than 17 million o f these in Africa. M ost o f the dying are in Africa and therefore invisible K o fi Years from now, people will outside that continent. Even if Annan hascalled for ask about A ID S, as w ith the m oved by A fric a ’s tragedy, SlObillion in annual H olocaust or the R w andan the average A m erican often global A ID S fund genocide, “ H ow could they assum es it is som eone e ls e ’s ing. A dvocates say have know n - and failed to responsibility. th a t th e U n ite d act? 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