Google – AFP,
1 December 2013
Myanmar
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at a World AIDS Day
function at
Government House in Melbourne, on December 1, 2013 (Pool/AFP,
Paul Crock)
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Sydney —
Myanmar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi urged greater openness and compassion
in the global struggle against AIDS as experts warned against complacency
despite falling infection rates.
Suu Kyi,
the UNAIDS global advocate for HIV/AIDS victims, drew parallels between the
plight of sufferers and her own struggle for democracy at the launch on World
AIDS Day of a new "zero discrimination" campaign and a conference to
be held in Australia in July.
"The
fight against discrimination is an extension of our fight for freedom from
fear," said the Myanmar opposition leader and democracy icon said on
Sunday, using the title of a famous essay she wrote.
"My
simple message as the global ambassador for zero discrimination is it all
starts in the mind and in the heart. There must be less calculation and more
warmth, more love, more affection, more compassion.
"We
must have our differences and we must recognise them, but these differences
should be an opportunity for us to be more complete human beings."
Suu Kyi and
UNAIDS director Michael Sidibe unveiled a new campaign Sunday targeting
prejudice against HIV/AIDS sufferers, with the world's first Zero
Discrimination Day to be held on March 1, 2014.
Sidibe said
scientific breakthroughs and visionary leadership meant there was now an end in
sight to "an epidemic that has wrought such staggering devastation around
the world".
"But
make no mistake, stigma, denial and complacency are still among us, putting us
in danger of failing the next generation," he said.
The pair
were speaking in Melbourne at the Australian launch of AIDS 2014, a major
global health and policy conference to be held in the city in July with 14,000
delegates from almost 200 countries.
Sharon
Lewin, an infectious diseases professor and co-chair of AIDS 2014, said there
had been substantial progress in the global response to HIV.
A total of
25 countries -- many in sub-Saharan Africa -- reported a 50 percent reduction
in new infections last year due to increased availability of treatments.
But Lewin
said there were still at-risk populations not seeking help and places where new
diagnoses were increasing, including in Australia where young men were having
unprotected sex with men due to complacency about the disease.
Executive
director of UNAIDS Michel Sidibe,
pictured during a World AIDS Day function at
Government House in Melbourne on
December 1, 2013 (Pool/AFP, Paul Crock) |
"It's
not as scary any more but it's still a significant chronic illness that has a
big impact on people's lives."
Last year
1.6 million people died from AIDS-related causes, down from 1.8 million in 2011
and 2.3 million in 2005, according to the United Nations.
In its annual
report on the state of the global pandemic released in September, UNAIDS said
new HIV infections had plummeted by a third overall since 2001 and more than
halved among children.
But Lewin
said the world was at a crossroads with HIV.
"We
have come so far and there have been so many successes," she said.
"But still there are so many challenges, the biggest being that we know
what works, but yet we still can't broadly implement it."
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Question: Dear Kryon,
as the Universe transforms in this period of ascension/transition, why does it
appear that little spiritual attention is focused on the African continent?
While there has certainly been a religious awakening largely due to the
circumstances that souls choose (for example, poverty, HIV/AIDS, etc.), this is
being translated quite slowly into spirituality (my perception).
Answer: Dear one, this question is perhaps the best one you could have asked for your time. Indeed, it appears that the African situation is dichotomous to an awakening Earth. For a full explanation, you have to go back to information we presented 12 years ago [Kryon Book One, 1989]. We told you back then that there was a potential that showed that in order for your planet to move forward at the rate it was appearing to, up to one percent of the population might have to leave. This was startling information to most of you, and some wondered how and where this might begin. A disaster, perhaps? A comet strike? Now, as you know, the Humans on the African continent are currently losing their lives by the tens of millions. In addition, the life expectancy is bleak for at least the next decade . . . perhaps the next full generation! Your disease called AIDS is seemingly fulfilling this prophecy.
What is
your information on the state of spiritual awakening on the African continent?
Answer: Dear one, this question is perhaps the best one you could have asked for your time. Indeed, it appears that the African situation is dichotomous to an awakening Earth. For a full explanation, you have to go back to information we presented 12 years ago [Kryon Book One, 1989]. We told you back then that there was a potential that showed that in order for your planet to move forward at the rate it was appearing to, up to one percent of the population might have to leave. This was startling information to most of you, and some wondered how and where this might begin. A disaster, perhaps? A comet strike? Now, as you know, the Humans on the African continent are currently losing their lives by the tens of millions. In addition, the life expectancy is bleak for at least the next decade . . . perhaps the next full generation! Your disease called AIDS is seemingly fulfilling this prophecy.
What this
might mean to you is that the prediction given to you about your transition is
now upon you, and all you can do is sit back and watch it occur in horror. What
we have channelled to you recently, however, is that nothing could be further
from your reality, or your 2001 potential. Instead, we have reported to you
that since the 1989 potentials, you have far exceeded the energy for the year
2001 beyond that which was expected. What this means is that now the prophecy
does not have to occur at all! What you are seeing, however, is the setup for
the old potential still in progress, without knowledge that it is not needed.
Remember
that death of any kind is abhorrent to you. We don’t expect you to understand
how such a thing could have helped Spirit or Earth, but on a grander scale, it
would have. An entire generation of Humanity came in with this expectation and
knowledge, and they had agreements to leave early. It is this African family
that you may now turn your attention to, for they have the opportunity to void
this entire contract and remain in health.
This
African continent is not in a state of spiritual awakening. They are instead in
survival mode, plowing through an outdated spiritual potential. What can you
do? Visualize the change in this scenario! You just changed the very time frame
of Earth itself, so changing the energy of this one place is well within your
ability! Visualize them happy, with families intact, fed, healthy, with the
potential for life and joy. The energy you can develop in these visualizations
can nullify the scenario that is there . . . totally! You can change the
leaders’ minds, quicken the ability for science to reach those it needs to, and
even change the reality of the disease itself. All these things we tell you,
lightworker, since this is the work that you have asked to do. Your
visualizations create a light that shines into the dark places of
consciousness, or science, and of hope itself. You still don’t understand the
potential of your energy! Is it worth two minutes a day? Perhaps three?
Each day, consider this.
Blessed
indeed is the awakening lightworker who is free from worry about death and who
is not constantly hungry. For this Human has the ability to use his energy to
help those who are ready to blossom into their own spiritual awakening, but who
are currently consumed with an old contract of death and disease. The few may
help the many, and the many may remain to help the earth in other ways. This
is what family does for family. Believe it!
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