My fault for being less specific: Africa has a serious health crisis, but many anti-establishment medical R&D scientists suspect that the AIDS lobby is using its political clout to label non-AIDS health problems as AIDS, which ensures that money that might otherwise be spent in improving public hygiene and general medical care is instead spent on wear-a-condom awareness campaigns.
As I recall, the contrarian argument works this way. HIV, they say, is actually a harmless virus. But when it randomly correlates with TB in the same individual, it is assumed that the TB is the result of HIV infection. So there is no African AIDS crisis, but there is a TB crisis. And not just TB, but many other diseases get factored into the AIDS equation on the assumption that HIV damages the immune system and thereby 'causes' the infection to occur.
When you speak of 'knowledgeable agencies,' perhaps the people you spoke with are sincere, but the agencies themselves might be beholden to a NASA-like 'we can do no wrong' mindset which ensures that any medical opinion that would take funding away from their coffers is automatcally wrong.
I guess, after Watergate and Monicagate, the more I'm told not to question a person's idealism and integrity, the more I suspect their idealism and integrity. One wonders how Africans survived for thousands of years without the UN to meddle in their affairs. Then one wonders how Africans will survive for a few more years with the UN to meddle in their affairs.
I will now end my message of knee-jerk cynicism.