[PEN-L:2755] Re: Re: AIDS

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>Aids is an important issue, but without minimizing the importance of aids [I
>lost a wonderful cousin only a year ago] we should keep in mind that many more
>people die from poverty around the globe -- but poverty will never get the
>affluent's attention like the personal threat of aids.
>--
>
>Michael Perelman


Ummm...

The pessimistic projections of deaths from AIDS over the next generation in
Africa and South Asia--places where the HIV-positive are not going to be
treated with multiple courses protease inhibitors--are horrifyingly large.
But, as Michael (almost) said, once AIDS becomes a disease of the African
poor it will tend to drop out of the first-world news flow...


Brad DeLong