Madam, - Monday was the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of Aids. There are currently, according to UNAids, an estimated 38.6 million people living with HIV and Aids worldwide. In the 2005 alone, approximately 4.1 million people became infected with HIV, and about 2.8 million people with HIV/Aids died.
How can there be such apathy towards this most devastating of epidemics? - Yours, etc,
MAURICE SADLIER, Lower Beechwood Avenue, Dublin 6.