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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, NY
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Sep 16th, 2003, 10:47 AM
Not to belittle the AIDS issue, but what ever happen to cancer?
It kills a lot more people than AIDS and we really have very little idea where it comes from or what to do to prevent it. AIDS, we have a good idea how to control it.
Cancer funding is something like 1/25 of AIDS funding (although that stat is somewhat old and may have changed).
And why are we footing most of the bill? We are what, 5% of the world's populaton and less than 10% of the AIDS victims are American. Don't get me wrong, if the president pledged that money, it should be delivered, but I think perspectives are somewhat skewed here.
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according to my mongoose, anyway.
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