Thanks for repeating the completely obvious.
By the way, female heterosexual AIDS rates, although quite low, are still significantly higher than male heterosexual rates.
Re: Who told you the UNIVERSAL explanation [for high male heterosexual AIDS rates in Africa and the Caribbean in the 1980s]?
Every science publication and news organization in the world.
They would publish the new number of AIDS cases every week.
Africa and Haiti had huge numbers of heterosexual male AIDS infections.
Lack of circumcision was the universal explanation.
I always assumed that most of them were closet homosexuals or IV drug users - but, of course, the Political Left could not say things like that.
Anyway - the main topic here is still higher, lower, or similar STD rates for circumcised versus non-circumcised males.
I will dig into the literature and get back to you soon.
Do that.
I got into med school...
Did engineering instead and worked with Darpa.
So my views on this. Other than the whole propaganda wing...
Is based on Engineering and mechanics.
Women are a lot more likely to get infected because the pathogen has time to stay there... To the break the blood barrier.