But they need to know more than that. It is my life goal to live and work on the mission field as a teacher of the Truth. I want to fight not only this horrible disease, but the hopelessness it brings. Names have been changed for reasons of privacy. Saralynn is now a freshman at Wheaton College in Illinois.
Medicine is extremely costly and difficult to come by.
More than 22 million in sub-Saharan Africa have HIV or AIDs, and millions more are at high risk. In some parts of Africa, up to half of the population is infected. In Botswana, the average life expectancy was 65. Ten million Africans are expected to die of AIDS in the next five years. Ask God how you might help.