The true cost of HIV/AIDS cannot be measured in the price of treatment or mortality rates alone. Take this, for example. In the tiny African nation of Malawi (the capital of which is Lilongwe, which I only mention because oh, how I like to say Lilongwe.) A former advisor to the UN and the Malawian government on agricultural issues reports that of the several hundred food and agricultural experts he trained there in the 1990's, about a third of them have since died and most of AIDS-related causes. The result? NGOs set up agricultural projects and there's no one local there to run them. The NGOs eventually leave, the projects go downhill, and the state of agricultural goes right back to where it was before.
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