Not just in South Africa, where 4 million of the world s HIV-infected people live, or in east Africa or Asia or the Caribbean. There is a resurgence of AIDS among American gay men generally and an infection rate three times as high among gay Black men. It is because they are newly careless about their behavior in part, no doubt, because they now believe medical science can rescue them from the consequences of their carelessness. Of course not. Beyond the economic, health, social, cultural and geopolitical consequences of such shortsightedness, it is simply obscene even to contemplate letting people die when they might be saved.
Money is necessary, but it isn t everything.
In the long term, with a behavior-spawned plague like AIDS, it may not even be the most important thing. St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071.