AIDS, Africa, and - Technology In Churches?

It wasn't too long ago on the DigitalDivide.net email list that someone said something along the lines of, 'putting computers in churches would help decrease AIDs'.

On many different levels, that doesn't make sense to me. But it made me remember a song done by Rage Against The Machine which, because of the genre of music, some might not have heard.

The song, Darkness, was released in 1995.

...AIDS is killing the entire African nation

And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation

But these governments, they don't mind the procrastination.

They say we'll kill them off, take their land and go there for vacation

My peoples' culture was strong and was pure

And if not for that white greed, it would have endured

My people were left with no choice but to decide

To conform to a system

Their minds enslaved

Their souls encaged

You feel the rage

This brutality can never be undone

But the sun has not yet set

The bass and drums and microphone a threat

That's when you've got to get the cry from the inside

And see that they're responsible for genocide

Responsible for genocide, Responsible for genocide...

10 years later, the vaccine is still under development. While I don't know that it's 'white greed' as much as 'corporate greed' (corporations are equal opportunity employers, or at least they advertise themselves as such...). So maybe the person was right, maybe it is greed that has created the problem... (I do recall the person writing something like that).

But at the end of the day, 10 years later, has there been positive change? And can anyone offer a good case for putting computers in Churches that are not native to Africa... a good case for how Churches and technology can help when part of the problem is that the native culture has been affected? Will technology and more cultural change toward a 'Western' way make Africa less infected by AIDs?

I don't think so. I think maybe jobs would help. Prostitution is one of the problems.

People can't eat technology, and unless they can make money or grow food with it... they can't eat with technology. The basic human needs have to be met first.