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Mary Fisher Named UNAIDS Special Representative

Sleep With The Angels

  

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"Mary Fisher's journey of hope and compassion has opened door, hearts, and minds and brought a new understanding to overcome ignorance and fear of AIDS. These eloquent words and Mary Fisher's healing message are a powerful demonstration that a courageous individual can still make a difference in our society -- and what a difference she has made."

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, and is a call to arms against the prejudice surrounding the AIDS epidemic.

"Mary Fisher inspires us to remember that the common currencies of life are love and family and care and compassion. This book is a rare opportunity: a chance to spend intimate time with Mary Fisher, her sons, her family. Sleep With The Angels is her inspired message for us all."

June E. Osborn, M.D.
 

Chairwoman, U.S. National Commission on AIDS

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.

Mary Fisher's assessment of this country's moral response to AIDS is particularly striking; "We have killed each other with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our silence. We may take refuge in stereotypes, but we cannot hide there long. Because HIV asks only one thing of those it attacks: 'Are you human?' And this is the right question: 'Are you human?'"

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....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?"

from : Sleep With Angels

"Mary Fisher has, through written and spoken word, let others know not only what it means to be HIV-positive, but in a larger sense what is special about life and loving and being human."

David E. Rogers, M.D.
 

Professor of Medicine
 

Cornell Medical College

Mary Fisher has been recognized with tributes and awards, national honors and honorary degrees. She was an ABC-TV producer and the White House's first woman "Advanceman." she is an accomplished artist whose handmade paper pieces are exhibited in galleries in New York, Palm Beach, and Detroit. She lives in the Washington, D.C. are with her two sons.

 

(Liner Notes from book : Sleep With The Angels)

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