Ok, I'll try to clear some confusion up and not add more to it. Take a look at these numbers, if we don't control it now it has the potential to become a major pandemic. Who cares about the epidemic there? Anyone who wants to see this disease eradicated all around the world. I got this picture from a slide show presentation by UNIAIDS. You can view it here: http://www.unaids.org/wad2004/epi_graphics.html The converse is also true which is far more unsettling. SARS and that avian flu are perfect examples. Hell, SARS is in the same family as the common cold (coronavirus). The AIDS epidemic was there before Bush even got into office. Also, a lot of the AIDS funding and prevention stuff is done by private organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ahahaha, the ol' men flocking monkeys story. It was most probably transmitted by hunters eating infected monkeys. I'll spare the scientific jargon and say that HIV (human immunodefiency virus) is almost definitely a descendant of a SIV (simian immunodefiency virus) found in chimpanzees because they are almost identical. Yeah, there are usually cycles of diseases that keep the human population in check but since we are getting more and more technologically advanced and living longer there are going to be more of us. But many people think it's going to be a quick acting flu like virus that will do something like that, not HIV. Every voice is important. Even though most people don't have power, it's important to discuss since the future doctors and scientists of the world (which I will be) need to be well versed in such matters. I love that conspiracy theory. Well it's not true. Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting