poverty, not AIDS, killing Africans

[Max Sawicky]

>
>Meanspirited, maybe, but is it a conservative argument to say that
>African health problems arise out of poverty? Is it a radical argument
>to say that, no, AIDS is responsible?

I've been thinking about this, and I don't see why it's an either/or 
thing (something I find myself saying a lot these days). Why are an 
AIDS crisis and a general public health crisis mutually exclusive? 
Why can't TB be rampant in both HIV+ and HIV- people?
Doug
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Thing always get dicey when anyone tries to prioritize
among compelling needs, such as alternative allocations
for pervasive life-ending diseases, of which Africa has
more than a couple.  Even though it would be possible to
provide plenty of additional aid to a variety of such
causes, choices would still need to be made.  People
don't like to confront these choices.

I would wager that Africans are less excited about AIDS
in particular than a variety of poverty-based plagues,
some of which would be relatively cheap and easy to
ameliorate, if not wipe out, relative to AIDS.

mbs