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Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance

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Re: Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance

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The US previously spent about $5B a year for global HIV programs, or about $15 per resident. I’d mail them my $15 if they’d keep this going.

And for the inevitable whining about the cost, let me toss some enlightened self interest your way. Know what else is expensive? Tuberculosis, which runs rampant through communities with high HIV rates. I’d double my donation to keep that at bay. I don’t want a tuberculosis epidemic here. I’d rather fight and win that battle elsewhere in the world.

Re: Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance

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The US has to maintain this forever. Sorry. That's the rules.

If we don’t stop it there, it’ll spread faster here.

Same argument they make why we have to keep giving Israel money to kill Palestinians...

Re: Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance

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The US has to maintain this forever. Sorry. That's the rules.

Or, until the local health service is sufficient to manage the problem by itself. As you may recall, uncontrolled contagious diseases have a habit of escaping their local fish markets or virology labs.
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