Madam, - I wonder how many of your readers are aware that this is Global Aids Week of Action.
The number of people who will lose their lives as a result of the HIV virus during this week will be more than 56,000. I cannot think of any other situation where the loss of life has been met with such indifference.
Clearly this silent emergency, now acknowledged to be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of our time, has failed yet again to achieve political or public engagement. The media have a responsibility. - Yours, etc,
MARY DONOHOE, Chairperson, The Rose Project - Aids in Africa, Merlyn Road, Dublin 4.