[GATOR NAVY]

Just keep repeating the leftist mantra "We're all at risk for getting HIV. We're all at risk for getting HIV."

[conservative in nyc]

Team America Lyrics - Everyone Has Aids Lyrics

Everyone has AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!

And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)

Well I'm gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There's a hero inside of all of us
I'll make them see everyone has AIDS

My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS! x 20

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Obviously the AARP should spend less time campaigning for Democrats and more time lobbying for more of the research pie. But, then again, since so much is being spent on HIV/AIDS and the life expectency of patients is rising ... I guess an ever-increasing number will make it to AARP's age requirement.

[ccmay]

In defense of the NIH, if you adjust these figures to measure research dollars per year of expected lifespan lost, they don't look quite so bad.

In other words, someone who dies of a stroke could have been expected to die soon anyway, of cancer or heart attack or some other disease of old age. But someone who dies of AIDS at age 32 might have lived another sixty years in good health if he hadn't succumbed to his perverted cravings.

We can argue about the morality of enabling homosex all we want, but on a purely epidemiological and statistical plane, the NIH is on solid ground.

-ccm

[ritewingwarrior]

And so you see the result of Hollywood and their propogation of the AIDS issue. That is a disgusting figure to see that AIDS collects so much in research funding, for something that is an easily avoidable disease. Other issues that deal with genetic problems are the real killers. My mother used to run Alzheimers research studies at USC before she retired. She always told me how they had to scrimp by on what they got. They were doing Phase 2 Human trials for new drugs.

[PA Engineer]

If the libs get their way the same thing will happen with fetal cell research. Political medicine will trump everything else. This has been happening for years at the expense of all other research. The joke when my wife was doing her fellowship (NIH 87-88) was to just put the word AIDS in the title and abstract and your research would be funded.

[little jeremiah]

In case you haven't seen this one yet. BTW, what does "PWN3D" mean? Pound? Pawned?

[durasell]

Is this "per fatality" in just the U.S. or worldwide?

[A. Pole]

The most stunning number, however, was $212,330, which is what taxpayers cough up for each HIV/AIDS fatality. In 2007, they will contribute a staggering $2.9 billion for HIV/AIDS research, which is only slightly less than the total for diabetes and Alzheimer's, respiratory and kidney diseases. They afflict tens of millions more Americans than AIDS, yet comparatively, they get the short end of the funding stick.

Bump

[irish guard]

I've said this for a long time, this is what the gay marriage issue is really about. Medical benefits for the infected gay partner.

[Seaplaner]

The July/August AARP Bulletin had a piece on federal aid for medical research in which it criticized the President Bush...

This is why I have nothing to do with the AARP. Why would I spend a farthing on a membership to an association that attacks my political choices and beliefs?

(And, I really don't think that their insurances and other "benefits" are anything special.)

Also, and changing subjects, many other posters correctly realize that many (but not all) AIDS cases are self inflicted (I.V. needle sharing and homosexual "lifestyle").

Although every HIV case is a tragedy, A cynic might say that rather than being "victims", many of those afflicted with AIDS are "volunteers".

.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

My town banned smoking in all bars.

Many subsequently went out of business.

The gay bars, however, are thriving.

Now they can negotiate the transfer of their STD's without being endangered by second hand smoke.

How Special.

[Species8472]

More at the FAIR Foundation website:

[upchuck]

I wuz gonna post:

If they'd just leave AIDS/HIV alone, the disease would cure itself

but thought, "Wow, that's pretty radical and very, very un-PC," so I won't.