https:\/\/www.lighttounite.org\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n(Tip o’ the hat to Aunt Elaine)<\/p>\n
However, a few corrections are in order. Obviously you can’t donate to AIDS itself (lol). Nor, despite the wording, are they donating for AIDS treatment. The company is Bristol-Myers Squibb. And they are so overwhelmed by the response, that if there really was a promise to donate a dollar for each lighting of the candle, it is no longer in effect. Although the count is approaching two million, they are only donating $100,000 for AIDS awareness education (in cooperation with the National AIDS fund, in some unstated capacity). Not practical education, not treatment – just a nebulous “awareness.”<\/p>\n
Still, better than nothing, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The email said: 40 million people in the world are infected with HIV and that number is rising daily. The majority of these people do not have access to life-saving treatment. Here is something simple you can do to help fight a problem that affects us all… Bristol-Myers is donating a dollar to AIDS every time someone goes to their website and moves the match to the candle and lights it. Please forward this to your friends to spread the…<\/p>\n
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