[Bikers4Bush]

If the epidemic had centered on Europe we would have known it was an epidemic far sooner than we knew about Africa.

Don't blame the rest of the world for the shortcomings of the governments in Africa in recognizing the epidemic too late.

[Pharmboy]

It will be interesting to see whom are required to take the vaccine (assuming that it tests out as safe and effective and the FDA approves it). The same groups that are subject to AIDS are also subject to hepatitis B and they make EVERYBODY take that one. Developing...

[Lanman]

bump

[boothead]

Aids vaccine 'in sight'

Well!! That didn't take long. Now if we can get to work on that little minor problem

CANCER

we'll have it made. (Minor meaning small, and insignicant).

[not-an-ostrich]

One for each new mutated form of HIV & AIDS?

[Faraday]

As the conference got under way, the head of the United Nations' Aids programme, Dr Peter Piot, said nothing better illustrated the continuing destructive force of racism in the world today than the global Aids epidemic.

Speaking at the UN conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, he said if the epidemic had centred on Europe, rather than Africa, and had affected predominantly white people, the response to it would have been faster and more generous.

This is the kind of moronic statement which is exposing the true motivation of the "anti-racism" movement.

Would the U.S. mobilize to fight an epidemic within the U.S. more vigorously than one in Africa (or Asia or Europe)? I would hope so.

Has African leadership been criminally negligent in the handling of AIDS within African nations? Most have, with a few exceptions.

Can AIDS be prevented/minimized by behavior modification? Indeed, yes.

Is the white man forcing the cultural behaviors on African society which are causing the widespread dissemination of the virus? No.

Will whining of life's losers stop because there is no rational basis for it? Sadly, no.

[patriciaruth]

Aids vaccine 'in sight'

Guess I need new glasses.