Concerto 46664

Annie Lenox
"We have come here tonight to bring your attention to an unacceptable situation."
"What I have to say is going to alarm you …and you need to be alarmed in order to wake up to the fact that the AIDS crisis has reached unprecedented epidemic proportions." "Among man, women and children, here and in other parts of Africa, AIDS is effectively causing mass genocide." "Let me give you some facts…"
"In Africa, more people are wiped out by AIDS every year, than in the entire Asian tsunami disaster." "There are probably 25,000 people here in the stadium tonight…look around and take it in…now double that number…every day, more than two stadiums like this become infected with HIV.
And for every ten that are infected…six are women."
"In this society women are powerless and vulnerable to the whims of men who refuse to practice safe sex and use condoms." "How can we implement awareness and change the notion that it’s acceptable for women to be exposed or forced in to having unprotected sex? This needs to change. Women’s rights have to be asserted and implemented." ...
"In fact…we are at war, but the nation is asleep. A silent serial killer stalks the land. It murders millions of men, women and children as we ignorantly and passively stand by and watch." "This is completely unacceptable. We absolutely must respond. We cannot allow this to happen. We need to take urgent and effective action right now."