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To: ccmay

Yes, I know you are not defending the gay lifestyle.

By the underlying mathematics on disease and disease prevention is always based on the number of people affected, not the remaining years of life of an affected group.

Aid for HIV/AIDs has been overblown for years based on any cost/benefit ratio, solely due to its strident and media savvy advocates.

Nonetheless, it is a preventable disease, which after 25 years, should in no way be shgowing the same kinds of infection rates that we saw in the 1980s. Obviously, personal behavior is affecting these rates.


17 posted on 07/31/2006 6:17:45 PM PDT by exit82 (If Democrats can lead, then I'm Chuck Norris.)
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To: exit82
the underlying mathematics on disease and disease prevention is always based on the number of people affected, not the remaining years of life of an affected group.

Rubbish, otherwise why bother finding cures for rare childhood diseases like phenylketonuria?

-ccm

18 posted on 07/31/2006 6:21:20 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order)
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