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KEEP A CHILD ALIVE is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa.
39.5 million people were living with HIV, including 2.3 million children under the age of 15, by the end of 2006. In the U.S. and other wealthy countries, antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) have transformed AIDS from a virtual death sentence to a chronic, manageable disease. But over 95% of new infections occur in countries where patients can’t afford these medicines. The lack of access to treatment makes the injustice of AIDS devastatingly clear to our patients.
• AIDS is a Preventable Disease…
Yet an estimated 4.3 million people were infected with HIV in 2006. That’s almost 500 new infections per hour.
• AIDS is a Treatable Disease…
• AIDS is a Stoppable Disease…
Yet it breaks down families and communities, with over 15 million children worldwide who have lost one or both parents to this disease. That’s entire generations of children raising themselves without support, protection, guidance and love from parental figures.
Why Keep a Child Alive? Because we CAN. AIDS is preventable, treatable, and stoppable. Everyone deserves access to realistic prevention information, lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, and social support services. Keeping a child alive means turning the worst epidemic of our century into the greatest victory of our generation.
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About Alicia In Africa

During the spring of 2006 Alicia Keys embarked on a journey to Africa that changed her life forever. During her month-long trip Alicia witnessed countless stories of people infected with HIV, who despite the odds, were overcoming personal hardships with astonishing bravery. Alicia, together with Keep a Child Alive, is now ever more galvanized in her commitment to publicly addressing the need for lifesaving drugs and ongoing care for these inspiring people.

Join Alicia on her journey and hear the compelling stories from those she encountered during her visit. Keep a Child Alive and MySpace.com are proudly partnered to bring you these incredible stories and Alicia's call to action.

We hope that you will be just as inspired as Alicia, and join Keep a Child Alive to take action! MySpace will stream this documentary FREE of charge from April 9 to April 16, in hopes that you will donate to support those you will meet in the film. Watch the film and pass it on to all of your friends! Start a virus to stop a virus!

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Member Since: 11/30/2005
Band Website: keepachildalive.org
Band Members: “AIDS is 25. As am I. And when I think that AIDS has been around my entire life, a mix of sadness, compassion and anger overcomes me. While the statistics on AIDS are staggering, especially in Africa, we cannot allow their magnitude immobilize us into inactivity. Rather, we must harness our sadness and anger into action! We must come together - individuals, governments, corporations, philanthropists and artists - as one and fight for the rights of children and families suffering unnecessarily from this dreadful disease. We must never give up until AIDS treatment and realistic prevention messages go hand in hand across the world; until we realize that keeping mothers alive is critical to the well being of the world's children; and until we can stand together and say, ‘We did not sit idly by and watch an entire continent perish’…It's time to stand up and deliver!”-Alicia Keys, Keep a Child Alive Global Ambassador
Influences: Turn your inspiration into ACTION! Work with KCA to continue providing hundreds of children and families throughout Africa with medicine, hope, and life:Become a KCA COLLEGE Member: Join the international network of over 70 KCA College Chapters and make a difference on campus!http://keepachildalive.org/projects_college.phpE-mail [email protected] to start a Chapter at YOUR school!
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Start a Virus to End a Virus

Hi everyone,We need your help more than ever!Please visit http://ga4.org/kcaglobal/join.tcl and join our movement. You are all our friends but we want to send you an exclusive chance to watch a docum...
Posted by Keep a Child Alive on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:47:00 PST

photos from South Africa's BLUE ROOF CLINIC

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Posted by Keep a Child Alive on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:05:00 PST

HANDBOOK.

http://keepachildalive.org/images/handbook.pdf
Posted by Keep a Child Alive on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:08:00 PST

25 years, 25 million dead.

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Posted by Keep a Child Alive on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:07:00 PST

WHERE WE WORK + WHAT WE DO.

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Posted by Keep a Child Alive on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:07:00 PST

BECOME A DONOR.

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Posted by Keep a Child Alive on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:06:00 PST

imagine this was your life.

You are eight years old with two younger siblings, Cedi aged 6 and Naima aged 3. Two years ago your father died. No one could tell you why. People just hung their heads as if in shame. He became a ske...
Posted by Keep a Child Alive on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:06:00 PST

THE FACTS.

AIDS is 25 years old this year. It has affected every country in the world infecting 65 million people and killing 25 million. The face of AIDS is female. In Sub-Saharan Africa three women are infecte...
Posted by Keep a Child Alive on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:04:00 PST