Today is World Aids Day. A time to sit back and reflect on how this scourge has affected all of us in some way or other. I have been consistent on this one as I strongly believe all of us are either infected or affected in some way. In my posts last year and the year before I have shared my thoughts and how it has shaped rugby, from simple behavioural change to contributing to one of the greatest scandals the rugby world has seen. This year I feel we need to see how rugby can shape the Aids/HIV world.
Just looking around, I found this and I wonder, do we have such? Or do we simply fail to acknowledge it as part of our game. The involvement of the National Sevens team with the Gender Violence Recovery Center is commendable, but as we can see in most places, the issues of gender violence and HIV and AIDS are intertwined and just a thought, maybe the fifteens team can take this up as their baby since the sevens team are already Goodwill Ambassadors for the GVRC.
For today, a break from the normal vitriol and anger, and share a thought or a message for those infected by the disease. Pray for those affected in one way or other. And as always, keep in your minds those working day and night to comfort the infected, condole the affected and those working day and night to find a cure for the scourge.
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