AIDS is fundamentally a political enterprise. The biological reality of 
suppressed and dysfunctional immunity lies at the center of an enormous 
medical project, a project conducted by and for a massive 
medical-industrial complex. Some believe that this multibillion-dollar 
for-profit complex is <i>primarily</i> motivated by altruism, by a desire 
to end the suffering of those with AIDS.

AIDS Authority believes otherwise.

We believe that both components of the medical-industrial complex, the 
State and the corporate sector, conduct AIDS research, pursue treatments, 
reach "scientific" conclusions, dissiminate information to the public, 
regulate therapies and "give in to public pressure" regarding drug 
approval and accessibility <i>only</i> in such ways that doing so serves 
the various interests invested in the medical-industrial complex.

If any suffering in those with AIDS can be relieved as a result of 
research that serves these interests, all the better (and a nation of 
headlines will announce the welcome coincidence of private and public 
agendas). "Treating AIDS" is the justification behind the research and 
the public policy. It is not the motivation.

AIDS Authority does not see this as overtly conspiratorial, but rather it 
is consistent with every other massive for-profit enterprise, from 
Pentagon information about defense threats to agribusiness information 
about pesticide hazards.

AIDS Authority believes it is time to do things differently.