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Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that cheap anti-AIDS drugs were no magic bullet for ending the epidemic ravaging Africa, and that the continent needs better overall health care.

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david_nwpa
July 22, 2007, 4:12 p.m.
Bill Clinton is right. More needs to be done to fight this epidemic. We also have to fight the battle here at home too. Indifference is the worst enemy in the US. Lack of adequate health care is the enemy in Africa.
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jordan11
July 22, 2007, 5:11 p.m.
We've probably poured enough $$$ into Africa to give everyone there better health care. What have those in power done with it? I'm tired of Americans going without, while we pad the purses of other countries. The ONLY place my money goes to help poor nations, is DR's Without Borders, a top rated, and pulitzer prize winning charity.
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david_nwpa
July 22, 2007, 8:24 p.m.
We need to understand that HIV and AIDS have taken out the middle portion of the population on nearly the entire continent. With disease and war, most of the 25-45 year old men have died. As a result, the very young and very old are left alive, with no one to care for either age group. Africa is in dire need of help.
Having said that, Appalachian Kentucky is also in dire need of help such as electricity and running water. Many areas still rely on outdated technology and have few doctors and inadequate care. We need to tend to the needs at home for once...maybe at the expense of the Iraqi people.
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evelyna
July 22, 2007, 10:22 p.m.
They could just invent a vaccination and allow the natives to continue practicing unsafe sex without protection.
We have plenty of unaffordable healthcare in the usa they can have.
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ETproductions
July 23, 2007, 12:30 a.m.
This really isn't a GLBT issue, it's a world health issue. If a cure isn't found, this incurable disease will slowly spread through the homo- and herero-sexual populations, as it is doing today.
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smeejay
July 23, 2007, 2:46 a.m.
i haven't heard much more about a story that caught my interest some months ago. it seems medical researchers in india, i beleive, by slightly changing the molecular structure of the protease inhibitors used to fight hiv had found new compounds with which to make these drugs. the original drugs are of course patented and owned by the major pharmeceutical companies, in doing so, indian companies have been able to make these drugs at cost without charging the gross profits made by the major pharmeceutical companies. needless to say these companies are fighting this tooth and nail. i'd love to know what the latest developments are with this!
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bwehrens
July 23, 2007, 11:11 a.m.
Medical Science has failed our world. We create cures to diseases and epidemics only to clear the way for even more insidious diseases like AIDS. I'm really just starting to think that its pointless, just let everyone die and start over.
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corther
July 23, 2007, 2:54 p.m.
"The ****ed-up government of Africa..."
Africa has about as many independent countries (governments) as the US has states, ranging from Egypt in the north to South Africa in the south.
Why does this story appear in the Gay/Lesbian section? HIV/Aids in Africa is contracted in heterosexual situations for the most part.
Some of the more careless comments here leave one with a fear for the hundreds of thousands of households in many parts - of many countries - in Africa which are literally headed by under-aged children who have lost both parents to Aids and are in dire need of help (often in communities already ravaged by Aids) regardless of what one might be able to say about their own governments often failing them.
They have no hand in their own situation.
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SeanIM
July 23, 2007, 4:05 p.m.
It's a global problem for sure, however we really need to clean up our act here and set an example before trying to fix other's problems imo. I'm all for charity, but...