Bush approach to AIDS fight wastes time, money

And Ahhhnold in CA wants to cap state funding that helps HIV-positive adults obtain medicine.

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On Dec. 1, parades and quilts, commemorations and prayers across the world marked growing public awareness of the terrible disease of mass destruction -- AIDS, the worst plague mankind has ever known.

This year China joined the global day of concern; South Africa and Brazil announced new plans for free distribution of life-saving drugs. But neither governments nor peoples are keeping pace with the disease.

An estimated 3 million people died of AIDS last year; 5 million more became infected -- both setting grisly new records. An estimated 40 million people live with the disease, and more than half don't even know they have it.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the disease is rampant, but now it is spreading rapidly in China, India, Southeast Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe. More than 28 million have died from it since it was first discovered in the United States in 1981.

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