Illegal Immigrants More Likely to Get AIDS, Solution Available

All American Blogger ^ | 8-6-08 | Duane Lester

[Bodhi1]

There are a few things we can rule out as the cause of this trend. As far as science has learned, you do not get AIDS from:

• Living "in a new environment"
• Being "discriminated against" or
• "living in harsh conditions"

Now that that is out of the way, I have another solution. If you make the choice to break into this country, you don't already have AIDS, and you want to avoid infection, avoid the following:

• "sex with a prostitute in California" (pretty much anywhere, really)
• "sex while using drugs or drinking"
• "sex with another man" (unless you are a woman, and it's your husband or exclusive partner, and/or it's protected sex)

One more thing from the article that we need to cover.

Steffanie Strathdee, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, found that residents of the border city Tijuana who injected drugs and had been deported from the United States were four times as likely to be infected with the AIDS virus as drug users who had not been deported.

We have covered that crossing the border does not give you AIDS, so we can rule it out. That leaves injecting drugs into your body. Try to not do that if you want to avoid getting AIDS.

[Bodhi1]

This isn't about being an illegal alien. It's about choices.

[Secret Agent Man]

It isn’t about being an illegal alien. It is about getting AIDS, and one of the identified risk factors around Tijuana is if you’ve been deported from the US.

Presumably because you’re already running with a high-risk crowd and have already made some bad decisions. The finding seems to corroborate the fact such a person has had a history of bad choices.

There is nothing wrong with noting the fact that the AIDS rate is four times higher among deportees.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good points. The vast majority of people with AIDS were infected through voluntary risky behaviors. We have been hearing about what those risky behaviors are for 25 years now. Anyone can reduce their risk of AIDS, and other forms of VD also, by not performing these risky behaviors.

[Tennessee Nana]

residents of the border city Tijuana who injected drugs and had been deported from the United States were four times as likely to be infected with the AIDS virus as drug users who had not been deported.
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Gosh, AIDS is not Bush’s fault after all...

It’s cause the poor widdle illegal aliens got deported...

[Liz]

Gosh, AIDS is not Bush’s fault after all... It’s cause the poor widdle illegal aliens got deported...

Sob---I'm all broke up about it.