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Apple Honors World AIDS Day for the Fifth Year With Red Store Logos

AppleFan360 said:
I agree. AIDS doesn't even rate in the top ten of the leading causes of death:
  1. Heart disease
  2. Cancer (malignant neoplasms)
  3. Chronic lower respiratory disease
  4. Accidents (unintentional injuries)
  5. Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)
  6. Alzheimer's disease
  7. Diabetes (diabetes mellitus)
  8. Influenza and pneumonia
  9. Kidney disease (nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis)
  10. Suicide (intentional self-harm).
Apple would do much better focusing their huge pile of money on something else, but, Apple is a left wing leaning organization and the CEO is gay so no surprise.
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Couple points:
1. You are dead wrong. HIV/AIDs is #1 or #2 cause of death in Africa, depending on the source or year. It's a strong #2 in lower-income countries of the world.
2. "doesn't even rate in the top ten..." Why would that mean it should be ignored anyway?
3. Couldn't it be the money that has pushed AIDS/HIV down the charts? We don't want to stop doing something that is working, do we? Look at the first point. The inverse relationship between money and AIDS/HIV death suggests money is effective.
4. I hope we can all agree that the prevention of death and disease should not be considered a left, right or otherwise political issue. Please. For the sake of humanity, please.
5. The Gay/AIDS connection is long gone, dude.
 
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Rogifan said:
This is nice and all but how come only AIDS gets special recognition from Apple? Just this past weekend I found out a family friend has one month to live. They went to the doctor because they were throwing up and had stomach pains and found out they were full of cancer. Yes I know Apple can't highlight every cause out there but why is AIDS special?
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Everyone is completely aware of cancer and lots of money goes to fight it. Many people still don't understand AIDS and it is controversial. It needs to be put in the foreground. Besides, research into AIDS frequently benefit other areas in medicine. The first treatment for AIDS was a failed cancer drug, actually.

aaronvan said:
I hope all this recent attention to AIDS isn't the result of Charlie Sheen. That reckless, promiscuous, druggie is the last person you'd want as an AIDS poster boy.
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It has nothing to do with Charlie Sheen. World AIDS Day and Product RED predate that.
 
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mentaluproar said:
Everyone is completely aware of cancer and lots of money goes to fight it. Many people still don't understand AIDS and it is controversial. It needs to be put in the foreground. Besides, research into AIDS frequently benefit other areas in medicine. The first treatment for AIDS was a failed cancer drug, actually.
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Some people seem to be stuck on this idea that for one thing to receive attention, something else has to be denied it, and react accordingly.
 
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iSee said:
Couple points:
1. You are dead wrong. HIV/AIDs is #1 or #2 cause of death in Africa, depending on the source or year. It's a strong #2 in lower-income countries of the world.
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I think his list was looking at causes of death in the US, in which case he would be correct as with proper medical care and treatment HIV/AIDS rarely will kill someone. Comparing that list to the overall causes of death in the world shows that more money can be quite effective against HIV/AIDS as it rarely kills anymore in wealthy countries where people can afford treatment, but it kills enough people in poorer countries that it gets up to the #6 cause of death globally.

I don't know if we can eliminate HIV/AIDS like we did with smallpox, my guess is that we can't since HIV/AIDS can last quite awhile before it shows symptoms, but we can at least make it so it is no longer a death sentence like it still is in many parts of the world.
 
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macbookguy said:
I signed in to say this. It's 2015. AIDS is what it is and has been for some 30ish years now. This should just be in news. Shame on MacRumors.
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I would be curious to see if they had put it in the regular news section would someone have gone and made a controversial post and gotten it sent here to PRSI or do people make controversial posts because they think there should be some due to where it is posted.
 
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mrkramer said:
I don't know if we can eliminate HIV/AIDS like we did with smallpox, my guess is that we can't since HIV/AIDS can last quite awhile before it shows symptoms, but we can at least make it so it is no longer a death sentence like it still is in many parts of the world.
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The problem with HIV/AIDs is that the virus is quite malleable, and can mutate itself to protect against any threat against it quite easily. For us to rid ourselves of it as we did smallpox, we'd have to develop both a cure and a vaccine simultaneously, and deploy both across the globe over a very short period of time.

It'd be a massive undertaking, requiring tons of manpower and money to succeed. And that's disregarding the inevitable anti-vaxxer conspiracy backlash that's bound to come about around the same time, muddying the waters.

So it could be done, but it wouldn't be easy.
 
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Renzatic said:
Some people seem to be stuck on this idea that for one thing to receive attention, something else has to be denied it, and react accordingly.
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Not really. I'm just wondering why Apple feels AIDS is special. I blame it on Bono. :p
 
mrkramer said:
I would be curious to see if they had put it in the regular news section would someone have gone and made a controversial post and gotten it sent here to PRSI or do people make controversial posts because they think there should be some due to where it is posted.
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If someone wanted to drag down a news story by trying to inflame and make something controversial, I'd hope they'd be suspended or, if bad enough, banned. MacRumors gives a lot of room for opinion but is not required to.
 
aaronvan said:
Of course we do, unless you think everything can be fixed simultaneously.

Here is my order of precedence for cures:

#1 Any fatal childhood disease.
#2 Alzheimer's
#3 All forms of cancer
#4 Ability to heal severe burns w/o scarring, especially in children.

I don't know where AIDS would be. Maybe 6 or 7.
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LOVE that! And stop the NFL PINK BS and start working to cure childhood diseases!
 
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One would think, with one of the most popular CEO's of all-time, that Apple would show just as much awareness to a disease that this popular CEO died because of. I mean, don't they know 1st hand what Cancer does to people?

Put yourself in this situation. If you and a close relative marched for breast cancer awareness, and your close relative past away due to an unrelated disease that also effects millions of people, wouldn't you put energy into that particular disease? Especially due to knowing first hand what it does to people?

I am sure Foundations don't care as long as the money rolls in. Don't believe everything you read though. Some people just go through the motions.
 
ob81 said:
One would think, with one of the most popular CEO's of all-time, that Apple would show just as much awareness to a disease that this popular CEO died because of. I mean, don't they know 1st hand what Cancer does to people?

Put yourself in this situation. If you and a close relative marched for breast cancer awareness, and your close relative past away due to an unrelated disease that also effects millions of people, wouldn't you put energy into that particular disease? Especially due to knowing first hand what it does to people?

I am sure Foundations don't care as long as the money rolls in. Don't believe everything you read though. Some people just go through the motions.
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Allow me to quote myself right fast.

Renzatic said:
Some people seem to be stuck on this idea that for one thing to receive attention, something else has to be denied it, and react accordingly.
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Just because they endorse one charity, doesn't mean they have to exclude everything else. Apple has enough money and presence to acknowledge World AIDS Day, and Cancer Awareness Month when it rolls about.
 
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Cancer charities are a minefield right now. Most of them are fraudulent.

My partner's stepfather just died from cancer, during surgery. He's not telling me how shameful it is that people aren't doing cancer stuff today like, lets face it, they do the rest of the year.
 
hlfway2anywhere said:
what a horribly ignorant thing to say. you know that there are people in third world countries who don't even understand AIDS? Who were born with it and continue to propagate it? It's not just a sexually promiscuous and drug shooters disease.

also, whats up with the "cause A is better than cause B" crap on the internet these days? it's tiresome. we can all work together toward a better world. we don't need to pick the worst disease or social justice issue and conquer them one at a time in order of perceived importance.

[edit: apparently some of you think my post here says "lets fix all the worlds problems all at once!" -- that isn't what this post says so please don't waste your time or mine making another post about it]
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While not specifically targeting Apple, the world of health charities has a wild behind the scenes money trail to whom actually gets the funds raised. A lot of charities pay out "service and consulting fees" to for-profit companies that just happen to have common board members. Also, many charity execs have huge salaries and benefits packages.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-an...tween-diseases-we-donate-and-diseases-kill-us

Above is a very good article showing what health charities get how much money vs. who dies from different aliments.
 
WarHeadz said:
Lol...and what "agenda" would that be?
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diegogaja said:
What's the "agenda"? Maybe i'll have to ask my liberal friends cause I can't imagine that helping to fight AIDS, TB, and malaria in Africa is part of some dastardly plot to take over the US or something.
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You folks weren't expecting an intelligent response from twiddledumb360 were ya?
Or was that your "agenda" all along????
:D
 
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