Barneyisfat

While reading Slate, I became aware that today is Black AIDS Awareness Day. (For a great article on the topic, read this.) One of the avenues I'm considering for missionary service is in the field of Public Health. There is so much education needed, especially about a disease like AIDS that spreads primarily through a lack of education and understanding.

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost." - Arthur Ashe African-American Tennis great, who died of AIDS he contracted from a blood transfusion