[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 163 (Thursday, November 29, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H8569-H8570]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       REMEMBERING WORLD AIDS DAY

  (Ms. KILPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KILPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to acknowledge and 
commemorate World AIDS Day, which is

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 Saturday, December 1. Today, worldwide, AIDS is the fourth largest 
killer of people. Forty million people, as has been said, are living 
with AIDS today. As has been said, 900,000 here in America and 13,000 
in my own State of Michigan. Half of the infected cases are young 
adults between 13 and 25.
  The cost of treating AIDS is astronomical. Our health system is not 
able today to carry that cost, and we must invest in our health system 
from top to bottom so we can treat those who are infected.
  It is important because countries around the world, including Africa, 
Eastern Europe, the U.K., Australia and Japan, are seeing increasing 
cases of HIV and AIDS. We must educate young people as well as others 
how to prevent the scourge of AIDS and carry out that responsibility. 
We must also invest resources so our health care system can treat.

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