Fighting AIDS is great and all . . .

To many African countries, the US and other Western countries send billions of dollars to buy fancy AIDS clinics and super-expensive antiviral drugs to prolong the lives of HIV-positive patients for a few years. Ignoring the problem that some (not all) of these HIV-positive patients who live longer use that time to spread the virus to more people, what about all of the other fatal diseases like malaria and dysentery which can be cured completely? This article on the BBC News website just hit home. Are we trying to save lives or feel better about ourselves because we're sending AIDS drugs to Africa?