There's a personal "deserves" and a systemic "deserves". I think the purpose of the article was indeed to provoke and to get the point across that HIV in these

There's a personal "deserves" and a systemic "deserves". I think the purpose of the article was indeed to provoke and to get the point across that HIV in these areas aren't just about getting condoms and information in the hands of people, it's systemic. Combine that with white guilt (white Christian Europeans don't really get to tell Africans how to lead their lives), that's a recipe for, if not disaster, then really inefficient programs.