Effective drug therapies reduce transmission and eradication to a crawl, yet virtually no one outside of Europe, Canada and the United States has access to any of them. Everyday I get messages from home about someone I know who died. My neighbors, work colleagues, friends, local entertainers, politician, many members of the cabinet and parliament are dying. Orphaned children are turned into domestic and sex slaves. Prostitution is on the rise in an environment not usually conducive to this lifestyle.
Hospitals are unable to cope with the large increase of patients.
Morgues are operating 24 hours a day. Cemeteries are filling up fast. I want to go home. To go home is to go to my death. To stay here and be silent is to suffer inside knowing millions of my people are sick with an illness your government has found ways to treat.