Right. The. US. Isn't. The. Issue. Neither is Europe.

The issue is trying to keep the graph bobad posted accurate. Once this one is over with we can get back to malaria, which isn't contagious and so while it is a worse killer it might seem not to belong in the discussion.

HIV/AIDS, par contre, is tremendously preventable by education and so is completely relevant to this thread, which is about how superstition gets in the way of health. The people who think it's a western plot don't help either, even if it is faintly possible that a vaccination effort had something to do with getting the virus from monkeys into humans.

I didn't think superstition were hugely in the way of mosquito netting, which is the best prevention for malaria, but apparently it is. So malaria gets back into the problem. Bugger.