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ALICIA CONTINUES AIDS FIGHT!

Alicia Keys was proud to perform at the recent Hope Rising AIDS benefit in Toronto, Canada.  Alicia’s Keep a Child Alive Foundation continues to raise money and spread awareness about the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa and other impoverished parts of the world.  The global statistics on AIDS are staggering, and Alicia wants everyone to remember that behind those huge numbers are individual, human beings.

Alicia Keys said: “You put these numbers out there – 30 million dead, 33 million-plus infected, 16 million AIDS orphans – these are people, this isn’t like some dot on a chart…You get these statistics and numbers and you start to lose the soul of what we’re really, really talking about.”

Even though AIDS has affected tens of millions of people, Alicia says we can all do something to help on a smaller scale – even reaching out to just one other person.  Alicia said:  “I think people get into their head that there’s this need and you have to do this grand and huge thing for it to mean something and that’s not the case. Even just your constant commitment, however small or big, that is something that is giving life to someone.”