They are not mistakes, Deborah ; they are part of the functioning of the nation state. The HIV disaster was tied to the the drug companies, the market and profit. Related Calling the shots
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51