Here's a couple things you should know about AIDS

India is poised to surpass South Africa in 2006 as the country with the single highest number of HIV infections in the world, warns a report by medical research group adding there was on an average only one trained doctor to treat every 5,000 HIV patients in the country.

China has fewer than 200 trained doctors for an estimated 840,000 HIV-infected individuals, the report said.

Source #1.

As for our involvement...

The anti-AIDS battle faces "catastrophic" failure if donor countries stall critically needed pledges to a struggling global fund to fight the spread of the virus, the fund's director warned on Sunday.

Richard Feachem said the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria faced disaster if key contributors such as the United States and Europe did not put up the 3.5 billion dollars needed for programmes in 2005. ...

Feachem admitted the fund faced a "big challenge" in meeting its goals for next year, particularly as activists say the United States is slated to contribute just 550 million dollars to the fund for 2005 rather than the 1.2 billion the fund had counted on. ...

"Unilateralism has no place in the fight against AIDS, yet President Bush is sabotaging the world's best hope in this fight for fear it will upstage his own US plan," Paul Zeitz, of the Global AIDS Alliance, said in a statement.

Source #2.

How many more people will Bush be allowed to murder?