From the article: outside very poor African countries, Aids is confined to "high-risk groups" To me, this indicates that without an expensive preventive progra

From the article: outside very poor African countries, Aids is confined to "high-risk groups" To me, this indicates that without an expensive preventive programme, a worldwide epidemic would have occurred. I hate to make the comparison due to the difference in significance, however, there were similar sentiments about Year2000 fixing. The few remaining problems were dismissed as isolated incidences and people wondered why so much money was spent.