Bobert, it's you who are playing Boss Hog's card here. We are NOT talking the AMA, we're talking WHO and the CDC, and MSF, and if you choose to think all those people are lying simply because what they say doesn't fit in with your politics, go on.

There are AIDS epidemics in more places than Africa. It's easier to throw food at people in Africa than provide competent medical personnel, and it really interferes with the profits of large drug companies to make medicines affordable. Providing education to people about AIDS costs money, condoms cost money. Teaching people how to eat isn't required. Treating a disease costs more than feeding people.

Let's talk about how the situation got so bad in the first place. People don't generally give a crap about a serious problem in poor countries that have nothing WE want, except maybe a few compassionate souls. It gets ignored, or labeled 'famine' and it just grows until it gets downright embarrassing. And then, somebody comes along and says, in effect "Nah, we don't have to send 'em nurses, doctors, medicine, educators, lab techs and all that stuff, we don't have to pay for it all, and we don't have to feel bad about taking it seriously a bit earlier, we don't have to figure out what went wrong or who should have acted. Them poor people jes' need some FOOD."