Headline Aug23,2012/ "Wir Mussen Wissen.Wir Werden Wissen!"

"WIR MUSSEN WISSEN. 

WIR WERDEN WISSEN!"

Yes of course: We must know. We will know! This great Nation of Germany and Germans, has ever nurtured some of the greatest, and, countless Dreamers, Musicians, Thinkers, Mathematicians, Scientists, Batlle Commanders, of all all times! Today, I honour the students of Germany with a Headline Quote in German, from their unique mathematician, David Hilbert; And I also honour Prof Dr Klaus Achtel, at whose feet, the ignorant and unworthy, Me, learnt informally many many pearls of wisdom, and 'Syllabus Design', and Discipline. thank you, Sir! Do say hello hello to Mrs Achtel and Christopher for me!

But no matter how formidable the obstacles and painfully slow the progress, President Bill Clinton reverts in no time to his usual optimism when it is suggested that the numbers must be daunting. "Yes, they are. But let's assume we need six million people getting their medicine. If our Foundation alone account for two million of that, if we can do a third of that 2008, then we've done heck of a lot there. That's the only point I am making. We think we can go from three hundred thousand to two million in 2 more years, so if we can do that, then..."

As fluent as Clinton sounded when reciting statistics, however, the numbers alone don't feed his determination. What seemed to motivate him, as ever and always, was human love and care. Day after day in Africa, in visits to the grimmest rooms, in dingy and horrid hospital wards, where doctors and nurses persevere in the worst circumstances, and in clinics where the patients must confront the overwhelming social stigma of their disease just to show up for treatment, Clinton's energy and focus never flagged. 

At Mnazi Mmoja Hospital on the edge of the sea in Zanzibar, the peeling walls and dark, muddy floors contrasted starkly with the gorgeous blues of the water and sky. The odours hinted of terrible sanitation. Until very recently this place offered no AIDS treatment at all. A situation that reflected traditional prejudices among the Island's overwhelmingly Muslim population. Clinton climbed the stairs to the second floor to meet patients, talked quietly with their doctors. Currently treating fifty six HIV infected patients , but planned to scale up to 2000 within the year. 

The doctors showed Clinton a boxy machine, and essential item, purchased by the Clinton Foundation and the Swedish government. CD4 T-cell counter measures the health of a patient's immune system. And then Clinton touches all inspirations: 'I am thrilled to be in Zanzibar! Just now, I shook hands with an eleven year old orphan child who knows that his is HIV positive.His circumstances have changed. he doesn't have to be stigmatized. And he doesn't have to resign himself to an early death."

Same day, and later, in another shabby building in Stone Town, the island's ancient moorish city, he held sick children on his lap and promised their mothers that he would continue to send them the medicine that keeps them alive, for free. I hope and pray that the World understands that: 

Heroism in any age is a mix of accident and idealism !?

Good night and God bless.

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