actually HIV is not on the rise, but has stablized in most countries. If you take anti retroviral medicines, you aren’t very infectious. This, along with promotion of monogamy/polygamy and premarital abstinence has lowered the increase in Africa (condoms don’t work in Africa: they aren’t used and many break due to the heat etc).
The anti retroviral medicines have especially been valuable to lower the rate in children (since breastfeeding is essential in these countries, they now don’t stop breast feeding to stop the spread to the baby, they just give mom the medicines and usually the baby is okay).
However, the promotion of gay sex in the US and parts of Europe has resulted in a lot of gay teenagers from getting HIV...they know about safe sex, but presumably they are having sex with older infected guys.
And, of course, it’s taboo in the US to promote self control in sex, even though we docs do it all the time when we advise people on diet exercize and smoking...(sarcasm off)
Thank you. You’ve done an excellent job of explaining the situation.
Yea I have a feeling the numbers are a little up but they are fudging them (no pun intended).
I also have a feeling it won’t be long before they will be crying for more money to ‘fix’ this problem.