Monday, February 28, 2005
What AIDS can do!
There are lots of people in India who, for inexplicable reasons, downplay the significance of AIDS to the country and her economy. Unfortunately, several of the nay-sayers also happen to be policy makers. The nay-sayers should pay a visit to Marginal Revolution, where Alex Tabarrok has put up an excellent chart that dramatically shows the terrible impact HIV/AIDS has had on life expectancies in Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda and Kenya. It's pretty mind boggling really, and as they say, sometimes a picture conveys a message more powerfully than any amount of written words can.
