Sunday, January 9, 2005 at 11:07 AM One of my friends mother died back in the late '80's from AIDS that she got from a blood transfusion. These days the symptoms of HIV are very much treatable and the progression to full-blown AIDS has become slower and slower which is good and bad. Good in that they're saving lives, but bad in that some people think the disease is 'cured' and they don't have to worry about it any more... Of course, Africa is a whole other story where the big American drug companies could save millions of lives by letting their AIDS drugs be mass produced (they're all under patent now) and distrubuted for low cost...that, my friends is worth a whole other tread though! —Adrocka | 
