I don't get it, what does this stats have to do with YC? Are you trying to say that disproportionate amount of resource is being invested in AIDS over preventing hunger on the aggregate level, and that it is wrong?

This isn't X or Y, this is X and Y.

Plus, to be really frank. HIV has broader consequences. If it ever mutates to spread through air or water, like common cold viruses. Then we are staring at an extinction level event.

The risks are far more higher.