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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Dec 14, 2005 09:59am |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Dec 14, 2005 09:00am |
| Description | Former Sen. Jesse Helms has videotaped a plea urging Americans to help combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa and to treat victims of the deadly disease as if they were family.
The North Carolina Republican was an outspoken opponent of funding for AIDS research, but his views evolved during his final years in the Senate, partly because of a friendship he developed with rock singer Bono of the band U2, who pushed him to the fight against AIDS.
"Until then," Mr. Helms has said, "it had been my feeling that AIDS was a disease largely spread by reckless and voluntary sexual and drug-abusing behavior, and that it would probably be confined to those in high-risk populations. I was wrong."
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