AIDS is something
just people have.
WRONG!!
Look at other impacts.
Rekai, Uganda.
A bustling trading center
With a stable population
third-world modern
on Lake Victoria
Claim to fame: HIV was first isolated there.
Today
Rekai -
rutted, eroded asphalt,
no traffic,
former homes provide minimal shelter only,
no utilities or services.
A city in ruins.
The city died with its people.
No work force.
No infrastructure.
A ruin populated by forgotten ghosts.
Seventy percent HIV positive.
Forty percent of children
HIV orphans.
Such a waste.
Rekai and AIDS.
Could our town be next?
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