AIDS sufferers and those at high risk of contracting the disease should be interned

This is interesting topic and to be honest - unorthodox solution. I can not oppose your statistics because they seem to be correct, but I had some thoughts about global statistics - yes there is trend in increase in HIV infected people. But around 67% of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa so it seems to me idea about concentration camps is not going to be cost effective (maybe trying Nuclear Bombs will do?) [1] My opposing point is - such encampments will cost a lot of money - there are between 2.3 to 2.5 million Americans incarcerated in prisons [2] and it costs a lot of money. And there are between 31.1-35.8 million people all over the globe living with HIV [3] So do you have any idea how much is it going to cost and who is going to pay? I personally don`t think it is great idea. Even if these won`t be high security compounds there is still need for acceptable hygiene standards and some perimeter security as well as food, clothing etc.. Also to stop disease there must be 3 different types of compounds - for heterosexual males, homosexual males and women. Also - not all of HIV infected are so called 'low lifes' - many are well educated and living normal everyday life. So you plan to take every HIV infected person away from its home,friends, family and just imprison them? This cannot be good for economy because it doesn`t deal with the problem - if you are not killing these people they still need to be taken care of. If HIV infected person is working and earning money it means that he is self sufficient + paying taxes. Have you thought about moral aspects of your idea? You presume that being infected with HIV is equal to crime? Imprisonment of person is considered lawful only by state after court sentence - and only when he has been proven guilty for crime. So it is criminal to be a drug user and being homosexual? Even if it is considered crime to knowingly infect someone with HIV (at least in my country) how can it be crime to infect yourself? Maybe stabbing yourself with kitchen knife is criminal conduct too? You cannot argue that becoming HIV infected will inevitably lead to another infected person. My point is that this will be very similar to Nazi Germany - Euthanasia, killings of asylum inhabitants and drug users. Didn`t we accuse Nazis for their atrocities against weak and different because it was morally wrong, though acceptable by their laws? And even if we consider becoming HIV infected to be crime , what about those who were infected without knowing it? [4] [5] . How can we blame new born babies for being in wrong time, wrong place, wrong situation? So we could also imprison children from poor families because we can presume they have far greater chance to become drug dealers and violent criminals? We cannot pretend to be blind and ignore fact that there are millions of dollars spent each year for HIV/AIDS research. Experiments has gone so far that even if person is infected with HIV, by taking appropriate medications it is possible to delay AIDS phase. [6]. There are experiments confirming that there is real possibility that there won`t be any more babies born with HIV by 2015 [7]. In the end I wanted to ask a question - what are the origins of AIDS? Couldn`t it be that it is just a side effect of our society (at least in the Western world) - if imprisoning and isolating AIDS infected persons for life is acceptable when they haven`t committed any crime, how can it be that killers and maniacs with numerous crimes get out of prison after some time, but AIDS infected have to spent rest of their lifes somewhere in the middle of nowhere? I find it hard to accept idea that AIDS is main source of our global problems and that it causes so much social trouble, that have to isolate infected, while letting to freely live corrupt government officials, genocide producing warlords and many other evil men and women. I don`t think that your offer is justifiable with these crimes against humanity - Drug Trade [8] and Arms Trade [9] [1] http://www.avert.org... [2] http://proxychi.baremetal.com... [3] http://www.avert.org... [4] http://www.kaisernetwork.org... [5] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn... [6] http://www.cdc.gov... [7] http://english.cctv.com... [8] http://stopthedrugwar.org... [9] http://www.globalissues.org...