In the 90's, basically every front page of our local fish wrap had some big story with a lot of photos of Aids Walks, quilting parties and other do nothing/look good activities of the various non profits you mentioned.
Our church and a few people at the local hospital raised about $20K to donate to the group of international plastic surgeons who flew to third world countries to do plastic surgery for those living there. The hospital bought the equipment and charge us only their cost.
The local editor at that time refused to have the photographer (who was a church member and would have donated his time/expense) and a reporter at a meeting with the check and the equipment bought for this group.
We got some heavy hitters from the Hospital board and fund raisers to put pressure on the editor. He gave in. The pictures were taken and a good story was done. However, the story and pictures ended up on in the middle of section C. That day front page pictures of someone designing a Rainbow sticker were shown with a huge story.
A friend at the hospital kept track and all in the Rainbow picture died of Aids in a couple of years. A lot of that equipment we donated is still being used by the traveling plastic surgeons.
That equipment has been used in surgeries of thousands of children around the world don't have cleft palates and other birth defects after the surgiers. Burn victims have returned to a functional life. People, who were shunned by their villages returned after the ugliness was removed in surgery.
This was a big wake up call to me of the infiltration of the gay agenda pushers into our media and even local media.
Very good example of how AIDS is a special disease, getting far more than its share of publicity, handwringing, and money. Everyone who has gotten AIDS with the exception of health care workers and recipients of blood transfusion has it because of their own behavior. A more preventable disease hardly exists.
There are a few other innocents like wives whose husbands cheated on them and so forth. And I don't want to minimize the horrible suffering that people have with AIDS. But the cause of offering free surgery to poverty stricken people and children around the world is far more important that AIDS quilt stuff.