AIDs is not an illness that can be ignored or denied by any nation, what with twenty million dead and raging in Africa and other poor nations. It is definitely the world's problem, and one that should unite us in the fight to eradicate this dread disease.

The explosion of this disease was cosmic in its size and importance. Some rules that have been overturned by the crisis, such as having unprotected sex, should be repeated (loudly and repeatedly) often enough for everybody to hear

As with everything, the only way to fight this thing is by educating those at risk. Ignorance kills. More money spent on teaching about protection for vulnerable groups, including condoms and not sharing needles, and less on benefit gigs that only benefit the participants..