Drug Dealers

Keep a Child Alive has an interesting site up about their donation-supported generic pharmaceutical purchasing campaign. The political issue is stated well:

To protect their own profits, American pharmaceutical companies stand in the way of affordable generic AIDS drugs

But the goodness kind of ends there, and the thrust of KaCA's Drug Dealer campaign seems to be the sort of retail activism that gives participants the impression that they're acting to save lives, while they in fact fail to effect the sort of systemic changes which are necessary to end the AIDS pandemic. And I could buy tons of Drug Dealer t-shirts without having anything near the impact that Bill Gates' tax dollars would. Individual donations will not end AIDS, political change will.