Post #19,943
12/2/01 3:12:43 AM
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Re: Do I care? I care for more important things
But a promiscuous homosexual lifestyle, or drug use, seems to be the major vector for AIDS.
Er, bollocks, basically. That might have been true 10 years ago, but now the fastest growing group of HIV+ (AIDS is not the virus, it's the syndrome) people is non-drug-using heterosexuals.
Go Mike!
Peter
Shill For Hire
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #19,989
12/2/01 7:20:55 PM
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Uh, "fastest growing"... As a *percentage*, or what?
If I'm not misled by "intuitive" maths, that could still mean more people, in _absolute_numbers_, get it the "traditional" ways.
So be a bit more specific, please.
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Doesn't Know Fucking Everything About HIV/AIDS
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Post #19,999
12/2/01 8:15:52 PM
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Stats, California November 2001
Heterosexual cases account for 5% of infections (cumulative) in California. Hetero cases are higher for U.S. average because so many gays have flocked to California.
Of hetro cases, 2/3 are female, and I know from charts I have seen posted (I have a bunch of clients who are medical testing labs) nearly all of those females are black, the only significant rising group in California.
Sticking to my general age group, demographic and ethnicity, I could sleep with a different woman every night for the rest of my life without significantly changing the odds between dying of AIDS versus the Los Angeles freeways.
[link|http://www.apla.org/apla/ed/HIVSTATS.HTM#castats|Stats]
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #20,000
12/2/01 8:29:45 PM
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Personally speaking...
I like your method of suicide better than the LA freeway method...
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #20,038
12/3/01 2:52:45 AM
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Re: Uh, "fastest growing"... As a *percentage*, or what?
Look here:
[link|http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/aidsstat.htm|National Institute Of Allergy & Infectious Diseases].
Some juicy tit-bits.
* Worldwide, more than 80 percent of all adult HIV infections have resulted from heterosexual intercourse.
* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 800,000 to 900,000 U.S. residents are living with HIV infection, one-third of whom are unaware of their infection. (my emphasis)
Look here:
[link|http://www.avert.org/statsyr.htm|UK Aids Statistics]
Look specifically at the table "How people got infected". Look at the numbers for homosexual intercourse versus heterosexual intercourse, for men.
Also look here:
[link|http://www.tht.org.uk/stats.htm|Terrence Higgins Trust]
Note that 50% new diagnoses of HIV infection in 2000 were via heterosexual sex versus 39% via homosexual sex.
Am I getting this through?
I'm not making this shit up. AIDS is no longer "The Gay/Junkie Disease". The sooner certain people around here wake up to that fact the better.
Peter
Shill For Hire
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #20,051
12/3/01 4:47:06 AM
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Danger signs are brewing.
I heard a report the other day that homosexuals in Australia are starting to not regularly use condoms.
That said, HIV and other STDs are and really always have been promiscuity diseases.
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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Post #20,126
12/3/01 4:52:53 PM
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Another statistic
Alas I'm way busy with work at the moment to make a contribution to this discussion of any significance.
But on Friday, when I bought a red ribbon from folks near the railway station, attached was a small card that said, among other things, '95% of people living with HIV reside in the developing countries'
Can't remember which, but some African countries now have an average life expectancy of about 40.
If nothing else, it was at least heartening to see quite a few red ribbons being worn on Friday.
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #20,263
12/4/01 7:05:06 PM
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So that's was what those were about? (Why wasn't I told B4?)
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Post #20,271
12/4/01 8:22:34 PM
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I'll try and remind you for next year
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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