Hi Becca
It may be as you said "I guess maybe it's either my generation or my area", it could be the same with me, I am a bit older & I live in an area where (southern New Hampshire) where we give cows credit for the area education systems. Maybe in part too that I'm always kept up by family discussions. My sister-in-law is Paula Donovan (you can google her) so the family hear's 1st hand of the worst of what happens over there in Africa & far more than any news media will try to sell, because the situation is so horrid so it could also be a case of what's relative too. Hopefully we'll be seeing positive changes soon in the UN on who gets to lead & create new AIDS/HIV policly & who's gonna be handling it.

Barry