With Nixon's "war on cancer, " the cure was supposed to be found by
1980.  Our leaders allowed the same fools who failed in that endeavor
to control the "AIDS" ("GRID" at the time) investigation, with
predictable results.  I propose that medical scientists be given
dictates about what they must accomplish.  If one says he or she
cannot do it, that person should be fired, and those who present a
reasonable plan should be given the resources instead.  Think about
how many generals Lincoln had to try out before he found Grant, for
instance.  To be honest, I would not want Gallo to treat a pet of
mine, or even the squirrels in my back yard, for example.  The current
system is not a dismal failure, it is a spectacular one, because those
in charge have generated much more misery and death than if shamans
and witchdoctors had been used in their place.

Once again you assume a cure or a prevention medicine is the goal.
Ridding the world of the un-wanted, un-needed and the un-necessary
is the goal.

Everyone is Not at risk for HIV.

AIDS develops as a result of becoming infected with the HIV virus. Although anyone can contract
the virus, certain groups of people have been more likely to acquire the virus than others. It
is important to be aware of AIDS and to study its risks and how it is transmitted, especially
if you are in an at-risk group for acquiring the virus.

One of the groups most susceptible to acquiring the HIV virus are intravenous drug users. These
users may be high-risk individuals in any event. The sharing of needles among users only
increases the risk of contracting the virus. Needles hold tiny amounts of blood that if
infected with HIV can be passed during injection to another user unless the needles are cleaned
and sterilized, or, better yet, disposed of. Anyone who shares intravenous needles runs the
risk of contracting HIV, particularly since people injecting different types of drugs are not
thinking clearly about their risks to begin with.

One of the first groups to report symptoms of what would be coined HIV and eventually AIDS was
homosexual males. These men were some of the first carriers of the virus and its resulting
disease back in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States. The virus is still a major
concern to homosexual men today because it is spread through sexual contact as well as contact
with blood and other body fluids.

A group that has more recently become susceptible to the disease is minorities, particularly
African Americans and Hispanics. Different factors may influence the prevalence of HIV in these
minority groups.