|
Diagnosed
HIV-positive in the summer of 1991, Mary
Fisher went public seven months later,
founding the Family AIDS Network and
becoming a well-known AIDS activist. She has
spoken about AIDS to tens of thousands of
people, including the audience at the
Republican National Convention in August
1992. What Fisher has to say, in candid and
philosophical terms, is a call to arms
against the prejudice surrounding the AIDS
epidemic. |
Sleep With The Angels presents
Fisher's strategy for dealing with the AIDS
epidemic: strong leadership in fighting
ignorance and fear, and a public-private
partnership to fund a cure. A mother of two
healthy young children, she talks about the
importance of family support for people with
HIV/AIDS, and the future that children today
face in a world where 12 to 14 million
people have already contracted the disease.
With Fisher's voice and
passion coming through on every page, this
is a moving and powerful book that delivers
a much-needed message about the AIDS
epidemic and what people can do to help. "We
have no assurance about the length of our
lives and we can do amazingly little to
insure it," she notes. "In the face of
stigma and hopelessness, daunting challenges
and desperate need, it is my prayer that we
will, each one of us, wake to a day with
courage. It would be a remarkably good
morning if we began not by wondering what
others have done about AIDS, but by asking
'What can I do?'"
Dr. June Osborn, M.D.,
chair of the U.S. National Commission on
AIDS, calls Sleep With The Angels
"a rare opportunity: a chance to spend
intimate time with Mary Fisher, her sons,
her family." And she thanks Mary Fisher for
delivering this "inspired message for us all
to remember: that the common currencies of
life are love and family and care and
compassion." |
