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Archive for the 'African AIDS' Category
My definition of a Hollywood liberal is someone who believes you can solve all the world's problems without knowing anything about economics. (After all, who needs graphs and mathematical symbols, when all you really need is love?) Unfortunately, there are way too many people in health policy who think exactly the same way. They not only resist the economic way of thinking, they are actually resentful if anyone injects it into the discussion.
Note to Bill Clinton, Elton John, Madonna, Bono, Sting, Ashley Judd and all their Hollywood friends: Stop killing Africans.
And here you probably thought that all these people - with their concerts, fundraising campaigns and AIDS awareness activities - were actually doing something good. Welcome to the world of political correctness.
If you're a regular reader of Health Alerts, in all probability you are not a subscriber to the kind of literature that would clue you in on socially acceptable charitable giving. So you can be forgiven for not knowing that (1) AIDS is a politically correct thing to be concerned about (in fact, it is far and away the most politically correct disease) and (2) making a distinction between AIDS prevention and AIDS treatment is boorish, gauche, insensitive, uncaring, unfeeling and completely politically incorrect.