Often we are angry with the very people who suffer most because we feel so helpless and inadequate in the face of their suffering. We also feel frustration and rage. Frustration at the slow progress towards the cure which twentieth-century medicine has taught us to expect. Frustration at the lack of a vaccine to protect the young against the suffering we have seen. The cure is taking too long.
Funding is difficult.
Sometimes it is even cut. The rage and anger we feel in Australia, where there has been much understanding and support, is nothing to the fury of frustration in the African village and the despair of the Caribbean slum. Occasionally the anger and rage boil over, even in middle-class Australia. People act up to demand greater commitment from their governments and fellow citizens. Fellow citizens watch.