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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

The Burden of AIDS in Africa

Check out “Human Ball” - a Médecins Sans Frontières’ animation on the impact and burden of AIDS in Africa.

I was awestrickened after viewing...

Watch the animation here.

***By the way, this marks the the 100th posting on Grandiose Parlor***


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Imnakoya @ 12/21/2005
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