A study by researchers at the University of Washington’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center at Seattle and published in the Journal Science documents that correlate the symbiotic relationship with malaria and HIV.

The study found that in regions where both diseases ae common, malaria may be responsible for almost 5% of HIV infections . Also they found that HIV may be behind 10% of malaria infections. This is a substantial impact and a reference point for prevention.

The trade off to not spraying DDT and the millions of people dying needlessly need to be addressed. The National Academy of Sciences says that in the years DDT was used 500 million lives were spared.

The fear-mongers need to step away. In southern Africa, more than a million people, who are mostly children, die each year due to malaria. The United Nations put the 2005 deaths from AIDS in

Africa at 2 million.