Did you know that there is no confirmation of a positive test in Africa. Here they confirm in 5 or 6 ways. The fact is that AIDS is diagnosed by a complex of symptoms that in the past accompanied diseases of poverty and poor sanitary systems. Now diseases such as TB,malaria,dysentery,malnutrion are no longer the scourge they once were. As one African woman aptly put it "No one dies of 'running tummy' anymore,now everyone dies of AIDS".
If you go over to the Smoky Backroom,there is a thread about e-mailing Bush,the last 20 or 30 posts will give you good information and sources for this info.
Good point, saradippity. I believe you're right. I do believe that anyone suffering should be helped - as in the example of the Good Samaritan. But as someone who lived in Africa for some time (and loved it), it irks me that we seem to have forgotten all the terrible health scourges that plague that continent, outside of AIDs. And it is more irksome, since AIDs is completely and totally preventable by behavior, whereas most diseases are not.