ng of his vaccine by using mentally deficient and underprivileged children as guinea pigs in the process. His methods are suspect because of his lack of response to the World Health Organization. Could such a mistake or lack of consideration be the latest sin of human ego responsible for the 15,000,000 people that will be terminally infected with AIDS by the year 2000? Currently, this invisible tyrant is so dominant that our basic values of Make Love not War have been twisted into an anxious cry of Make Love and Die. This disease is causing a great deal of pain and sorrow. Weneed to reason and evaluate the truth of the matter and to adapt to a way of life in order to minimize further casualties. If we declare war on HIV, educate in preventing the spread of this disease, and avoid stigmatizing and discriminating based on misinformation, we are well on our way to at least neutralizing HIV. Moral awareness should also be increased in an effort to have better use of the education we possess. This includes those in the medical profession. At this juncture, the chance to find a cure for retroviruses, especially the HIV virus, are less likely than it is for the virus to evolve into a non-deadly form. Perhaps HIV will mutate to a less virulent state, so that it coexists with humans as silently as SIV does with African green monkeys. Perhaps then it will come to be considered one of the lesser, invisible tyrants....
