Many young blacks are disdainful of campaigns, viewing such efforts by whites merely as attempts to stop them from procreating. There is a wasting stage in which people contract opportunistic infections after their immune system becomes weakened. Treatable opportunistic infections such as TB, malaria, cholera, and measles have all been eliminated in the U.S. AIDS patients whose doctors cannot provide basic antibiotics such as penicillin. It is estimated that Zimbabwe s hospitals go without aspirin for one third of the time. Clinics in many of these countries are so understaffed and under-supplied that oftentimes, those with AIDS find that staying at home to die is more comfortable than spending their last days in a crowded ward where doctors can not save them.
Economists worry about already poor economies in other developing nations.
More importantly, the human toll continues to rise- there are 200,000 AIDS orphans living in South Africa alone. Eighty three percent of all AIDS fatalities occur in Africa. If a country does not recognize that it has an AIDS problem, then it is not willing to take on the tough questions. Outside support for something that only be solved from the inside cannot work.