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I used to think this way but I came to realise that what your suggesting is segregating the healthy from the sick and removing any hope for national survival.

Money is the key to this. That and the resolve to ensure that people are educated, fed, and creating an existence that is more than just survival.

Add security for a region that has leaders that require a sharp kick in the ass to point out that they are wasting resources and the lives of their people over pride and greed.

I do agree that Bandaid is just that. But it does start debate, which wasn’t there before.

A sustainable solution is something I would offer my resources too. But I wont help to perpetuate the problem by agreeing to a solution that doesn’t change the situation.

I disagree because I think the country is fundamentally too broken to fix in its current state. A decade of drought combined with the almost complete breakdown of traditional society, falling education rates, rocketing infant mortality - and AIDS. The thing is, the people infected today will not die or become seriously ill for another 8 years or so.

No matter how much money you pour into this situation, I don't believe you can fix it. I really don't. I think the country is in the run-in to an apocalyptic scenario and I think getting as many people out of there as possible is the only humane solution.

Don't get me wrong. The Sudan situation is entirely different. The traditional social structures are only hidden, not disintegrated. If it's famine, drought, civil war, even "normal" epidemics that kill the weak, very young and old but leave the core adults intact - sure, pour in money and support the society to rebuild.

I don't think there is going to *be* a society in Swaziland after the next 20 years or so. I think a refugee program is the only hope.

It's a complicated issue. There's the problems like civil war, the fact that companies that own patents for Aids drugs aren't prepared to allow others to make cheap copies for use in these areas, the fact that Africa isn't that interesting to countries like USA cos it's not sitting on oil... To me it seems that the western world isn't prepared to accept that it's responsible for a lot of the worlds problems and that it may actually have to do some wealth redistribution to solve them. I guess all you can do is pick an issue - eg I support the environment - if you try and solve everything you don't get very far.

I know its cynical but I don’t think the world (Human Race) will ever get itself together unless we have something else to compare to.

From what I have seen, every ill in the world is based on what Man either envies or thinks he can get away with. And as we only have ourselves to compete with, we submit the world’s evil on each other.

We need a comparative species of equal strength or greater to either put us in our place, give us something to aspire to or subjugate us into doing the right thing. A Benevolent dictator if you will.

And as I dont think any of those scenarios will happen in my lifetime. I will ensure that my community, the people I interact with, get the best from me that I can give.

Ill save the world by making my place better. I hope Im not selfish.

Well deep down we're still monkeys/primates whatever, competing for space and keeping up rivalries. Quite funny really, how short a way we've come.

Yep, nature will assert her balance again - it's only in the short term, personal level that things are out of whack. In 10 million years the effect humans have had in the last 1000 will be neglible.

But being a selfish girl, I'd like to have a nice, stable, livable world for the next 100 or so. Beyond that I don't mind too much.

Being selfish and also a bit of a softie, I don't like to think that I can't do *something* to help on the short-term, personal level for another few human beings, right here, right now. I do stuff locally that I can, but I want to encourage our government to act globally on my behalf.

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