a mysterious new deseechls all five of them eventually died and all they had in common was a trashed immune system. they didn t know each other. they had no apparent connection. we now know they had aids. since then it s killed nearly 30 million people. 34 million more are living with hiv. that s the virus that causes aids. more than a million of them are in this country alone. this week i was part of an event to raise awareness and try to bretter fight back against hiv and aids. the beginning of the end of aids. i like the way that sounds. i like the way that sounds when i first heard it. i like the way that while some problems in d.c. seem too big, too difficult, this dev stating disease, we can tackle. we can put hiv/aids on the run, so to speak. the beginning of end of the aids is something that allows us to stand at that most perfect union of audacity. thing of what is audacious, that intersection, that s where we want to be. the organization s one and red have laid ou