Tim asks:

> Here's a couple of wars we ought to get involved in.
>  AIDS:  http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm
>  Malaria -:  http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/1InformationSheet03.pdf
>
>  Name one country that spends more on these two diseases than the US?

As a percentage of GNP, most of Europe spends far more, as does Japan. The US
has become rather stingy of late in any activity which might promote peace
and well-being, world health being prime among them.

Surprisingly, most of the US's contribution to world health now comes not
from the Republican-led and administered Congress but from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation just announced another $200 million
to fight malaria in Africa. See the eighth link down at:

  http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Press+Releases+by+Date

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has plans to distribute $24 billion
dollars over the next decade to combat the most severe of the world's
diseases. The United States government has never begun to do anything of any
similar magnitude.

Wirt Atmar

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