[speaker001:] uh okay all right I'll start uh funding
[speaker002:] well I guess you could go first perhaps on this one
[speaker001:] I think that in light of the seriousness of it of the fact that that uh by what uh I think they said by the year two thousand there'll be at least five is it five thousand a year or more
[speaker002:] is that what it is statistically
[speaker001:] uh yeah will be dying from it and I know uh what is it uh over in Africa it's just already in horrendous uh
[speaker002:] right truly an epidemic
[speaker001:] yeah it really is so in light of that I think that that we're probably going to have to increase the funding for research I think that uh I don't know if they have it but it looks like to me that all the countries could go together and have like a joint AIDS research program I don't know if they already have one of those where everybody could put in their input
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum do you know if that exists today in a cross country kind of collective
[speaker001:] I don't know I don't know I don't I don't hear about research that much except in the terms of what the United States is doing and the celebrities that show you know the benefits and things that they put on for AIDS research I do I did hear about uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] Africa and um how rampant it is over there
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] and I know uh in talking to I have a relative that works for uh state welfare in Oklahoma the AIDS children that are coming in with it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh it I mean it it's it's tragic it's just absolutely horrible and it's you know it's not just homosexuals it's you know heterosexuals it's you know the drug users it's
[speaker002:] exactly
[speaker001:] innocent people that you know go in for blood transfusions so I mean it's starting to affect everyone
[speaker002:] do you think that the visibility um is part of what is keeping it in the limelight the fact that the funding sources are being discussed so so regularly um is because um of the nature of the disease the fact that it's such a terrible way to die and so on
[speaker001:] I think that probably partly is it I think that it is has received so much more publicity since we have had well-known actors athletes
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] everything coming down with it I think that uh I do agree with someone when uh Magic Johnson announced uh there was a uh spokesman spokesperson for the gay community that came out and said that you know it would not be receiving this much publicity if it wasn't for someone like Magic Johnson and it would be you know very interesting to see
[speaker002:] it's true it's a different level of publicity um-hum
[speaker001:] that's right that's right and I think it it I think it makes people more aware that it hits other than just the gay community and uh
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] but I do think that that in light of the fact that it's going to hit all of us I think what are they saying by the year two thousand I think it's one in three is supposed to have it you know it it because it it is it's spreading so rapidly
[speaker002:] um-hum I agree with you I do believe that there should be a greater amount of uh funding sources set aside for it but I I know that the visibility of it is part of what's causing it to get this attention now and I would hope that the emphasis would continue over the long term I mean I'm surprised to see the numbers of um people who for example who women who have breast cancer and have died are even greater than the number of people who who have died from AIDS
[speaker001:] oh I didn't realize that
[speaker002:] on on a regular basis that the statistics are higher and yet it's such a benign kind of a thing it seems like it's been with us for a long time and it's such a
[speaker001:] well it is I know that I I heard another conversation regarding AIDS the fact that that you know cancer is not receiving this and yet is is cancer growing at such a rapid rate
[speaker002:] that may be the other issue that it's it's it's reaching epidemic proportions and we have
[speaker001:] you know it it you know and I think that's what is scaring people is that it is reaching such epidemic proportions you know where
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] is is cancer on the rising is it rising as rapidly
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know as for instance AIDS you know uh it
[speaker002:] yes and I don't know that it may not be
[speaker001:] I don't I don't know either you know it's it's just uh and granted I I do think that because of the publicity and because of the people you know getting it and everything I think that that people are more aware of it than you know say if you know someone just dies with cancer which is it's a tragic way
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] I mean you know it's tragic that it's that way
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum I I look at the community resources that were dedicated to um those with cancer in terms of transitional living environments and um volunteer services and those sorts of things