Apparently, you don't know the first thing about how AIDS is spread in Africa. Women and children get it, innocently.
Stopping AIDS in Africa is going to involve a whole lot more than lectures from a bunch of do-gooders.
Its not our business. If the AIDs doesn't get most of their population then the economic repercussions of Islam and Communism will. Why should 15 billion in American tax money be spent so Mugabe can have a new Ferrari?
Sinkspur - the only thing which will stop it is refraining from sexual promiscuity. Nothing, I repeat, nothing else will. Out of compassion, it is good to help those who suffer, but as many have suggested on this thread, there are a great many who suffer in this world - a great many of whom do so not of their own poor choices. We should be helping in a balanced way - but we've made AIDs cases more important than just plain hunger. Further, we're spending a great deal of this money in ways that do nothing to reduce sexual promiscuity (the root cause of this problem). As usual, the liberals wish to spend a great deal of money in a very PC way, and which does not make a lot of common sense (liberalism = lack of common sense in general). Further, as many posters have pointed out, charity should be a personal decision - not a governmental one. It would be far better for the president to urge AMericans to help with their own funds sufferers of hunger and AIDs around the world, than to take our money and tell us where best to spend it.