I was uncomfortable with it at first, but on reflection, most of those millions of sufferers are innocent victims, especially the women and children, and it is a worth while opportunity to do something to help them.

I am so grateful for this oppotunity to contribute against the scourage of AIDS. For far too long disease has been attributed to morality. Illness is a physical thing, we are physical beings and we all need to help each other.

AIDS is a human disease that should be researched and cured like all other human diseases. That is the primary mission of medical research and the practice of medicine. Simply choosing to ignore it will not cause it to disappear or cure people currently infected. What is immoral is to allow unnecesary suffering due to social or political attitudes. AIDS does not have a political or social agenda, just victims. The faster a cure or effective treatment is found, additional deaths can be avoided.

While I completely agree with those supporting the FightAIDS@Home project and the efforts to reduce the suffering it brings on mankind, I want to call attention to a statement made by Robin Wilner, IBM Vice President of Global Initiatives, in an interview Monday. She said that there are six other projects in the pipeline and all can run simultaneously. The World Community Grid plans to announce several new philanthropic grid computing efforts in the first quarter of 2006. You can read the article here.