World leaders aimed to ensure universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention,
treatment, and care by 2010, but they have not provided the funds to
accomplish those goals. Until a scientific or financial breakthrough is
made the disease will continue to ravage poorer countries and
communities and undermine efforts to reduce poverty worldwide.
Pamela Adoyo stands calmly and resolutely at the epicenter of Kenya's
AIDS epidemic. Her women's group is helping care for the sick, impede
the disease's spread, and stitch back together a community torn apart
by the epidemic.