I worked at USC's school of Public Health during grad school. I know we like to pat ourselves on the back about the AIDS awareness stuff in Africa but, a lot of our self-congratulations is bullshit. Sure, we go over there and teach them about using condoms and about the spread of HIV. We do. The problem is that many of them simply don't care. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that people with those rather flippant attitudes are aplenty here. They are. I just don't get why we put so much effort and money into Africa when it is such a fruitless endeavor.
