American Voices

The Worldwide AIDS Crisis

December 10, 2003 | ISSUE 39•48

AIDS in the Third World, particularly Africa, is an ever-growing problem. What do you think?

  • Wow, storage costs for that AIDS quilt must be skyrocketing.

    Jay Litton
    Busboy

  • That's it. Call off the Olympics.

    Thomas Batson
    Banker

  • Normally, I'd have sympathy for the Third World, but you've gotta admit it's their fault for being gay.

    Gayle Showalter
    Teacher

  • AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is on the rise because sufferers have failed to ask their doctors about Combivir®.

    Shelli Madden
    Food Scientist

  • We're losing the war on AIDS. And drugs. And poverty. And terror. But we sure took it to those Nazis. Man, those were the days.

    Glen Luther
    Systems Analyst

  • We can't just throw money at the problem. Or discuss it in the political arena. Or address it at all.

    Yi Shade
    Foreman

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