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Well, don't know if this is quite topical, but as long as we're talking about AIDS on the political board, has anybody thought about how the much maligned big drug companies in America that are responsible, along with the trial lawyers, for our terrible health care system have, in the span of a decade, come up with drugs and treatments that, though expensive, have effectively treated AIDS?
An AIDS diagnosis used to be a death sentence. Remember the little guy, Ryan White, who got it and became a national spokesperson and friends with Michael Jackson? He died within a few years. Now, drugs are available to turn an AIDS into a chronic, not terminal disease, similar to diabetes. Remember people wondering how long Magic Johnson was going to make it? I do not doubt that the AIDS epidemic will have lasting sociological impact on African society, but I also have little doubt that eventually it will not be the problem that it is there today.
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