I’ll pretend that I’m kissing
The lips I am missing
And hope that my dreams will come true.
Não há acerto ou erro. Os seres humanos oferecem o melhor que podem oferecer de acordo com o nível de aprendizado em que estão. Agradeça, a cada dia, a oportunidade de aprender, de se aperfeiçoar. É para isso que estamos aqui.
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2011 está indo embora. Esse foi um ano difícil, talvez o mais difícil, com perdas importantes. Amadurecimento. Cada vez mais eu tenho a certeza de que tudo aquilo que nós chamamos de sofrimento é, na verdade, oportunidade. Oportunidade para aprender valores, modificar valores, construir valores. E seguir a eterna construção diária com mais um tijolo, e outro, e outro. Eterna porque, evidentemente, tudo isso não acaba aqui. Espero que as dificuldades de 2011 tenham nos ensinado a aprender a maneira mais inteligente de aproveitar esses sofrimentos, essas oportunidades, para que, no ano que virá, possamos evoluir sem dor, sem tanta dor, ou com menos dor.
2011 marks the ten-year anniversary of two events that have helped shape people’s ability in developing countries to access quality, affordable medical care.
First, the signing of the Doha Declaration, in which governments affirmed the need to prioritize health over trade: access to affordable medicines over intellectual property rights. Second, is the decision to create a “war chest” to fight the developing world’s biggest killer diseases: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Through the Global Fund, unprecedented levels of donor money were channeled towards saving lives. But a decade later, the struggle to access medicines in developing countries continues and global health is suffering from a sudden shortfall in funding, as donor countries leave the Fund in dire financial straights.
These are some of the barriers to medical care that people in developing countries encounter every day. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’s (MSF) Access Campaign was created just over ten years ago in order to try, with others, to bring down some of these barriers that restricted our ability as a medical humanitarian organization to give patients the best care we can. Read the Access to Essential Medicines: Ten Stories That Mattered in 2011
Photo: Kenya 2011 © Bruno De Cock/MSF
For you and I, I wish the sight that sees the signs and the lights in our darkness.
And ears that hear sounds in our unconsciousness.
For you and I, I wish a soul that absorbs and accepts everything.
And a tongue that by honesty drags us out of our silence and makes us speak of that which has caged our being.
—Ahmad Shamlou (via philphys)
