It’s sad, really, when you go from a TV show featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci — head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the world’s foremost experts on HIV/AIDS, talking about how both remain epidemic — to an ad for a chewing gum, airing just minutes later and whose tagline, “Practice Safe Breath,” is a takeoff on what still remains one of the most important public health messages ever regarding… HIV/AIDS.
