But Bob, for some odd reason, people don't want to hear about those things. Maybe that's because, unlike natural disasters, an infusion of $$ and technology can easily reduce those numbers, but, as I think Frank mentioned, our priorities are skewed towards other objectives, and maybe there's a certain degree of guilt that goes along with that.
Shel Bob Walkden said: > I don't want to sound politically correct, or as if I'm minimising the > disaster in Asia because I'm not. I have been to some of those places > and can imagine a bit of what they must be going through. But 3 million > people die from malaria every year, half of them children; 25 million people > in Africa have HIV/AIDS, and 6,000 of them die of it every day. > > -- > Bob >
