Sad, but true. Aside from the money, overuse of these drugs in an evironment where they will not be reliably taken, and where HIV engendering sexual practices are rampant ensures that they will lose their effectiveness all the more quickly. So, its not just money, it is the devaluation of the medicines.
Now, combine this with profit disincentives for medical companies, and you have a surefire recipe for a declining quality of available medicines.
It is a part of stimulus package - to help pharmacological industry
Agreed. The money spent on drugs does nothing to cure or stop the spread of AIDS. Money spent on screening blood supplies, testing and identifying HIV carriers and educating people to avoid multiple partners will help reduce the spread. Something as simple as identification and permanent quarantine could eradicate the disease in the time it takes for the incurably infected parties to die.
An Un-PC Quick Course Cure For Aids in America and Around the World:
1) Do not have sexual intercourse prior to marriage.
2) Only have sex with your spouse.
3) Do not engage in homosexual sex of any kind.
4) Do not use illegal intravenous drugs.
5) Do not "share needles" with those who do.
6) Isolate ALL aids patients from the general public.
7) Prohibit those infected from engaging in homosexual or heterosexual sex etc… of ANY kind.
8) Incarcerate ALL aids patients who willingly spread the disease via homosexual, heterosexual sex and drug use.
9) Put to death those who kill with Aids for the sexual thrill of it, those who willingly infect themselves, infected rapists and those who have sex with underage virgins in order to get “cured from the disease (an activity that which is taking place in Africa on a monumental scale).
10) Educate the public, starting from a very early age over the real risks of HIV infection. No longer sanitize and white wash it. Show them actual footage and photos of the horrors the disease accurately describing exactly what it does to those infected while also teaching them rules number 1 - 12. Repeat the process on an on-going basis.
12) Only provide aids treatment to those patients willing to abide by the rules as stated above.
13) Defund EVERY organization, humanitarian, governmental or otherwise that refuses to abide by rules 1 - 12 above and ONLY fund those that do.
If we applied the 15 Billion dollars we are about to throw away to the above plan, Aids in Africa would be greatly reduced or eliminated altogether. Unfortunately, those in power will never enact this safe and sane, time tested plan, which has worked for every other communicable disease. Why, because Aids is the only disease on Earth that has “rights”. The supposed rights of the infected outweigh the rights of all the rest of humanity. Unless and until this changes, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. Our money will continue to be thrown down the drain and Aids along with all it’s by-products (such as untreatable TB) will continue to spread nationally and around the globe. All because the above plan is not “politically correct”.