Why does it matter? AIDS is a terrible problem, bad here but much, much worse in places like Africa. We're an absurdly rich country, why shouldn't we do what we can to help?
If these people are so concerned about AIDS, don't drop your pen on the floor when you're working there.
First off, it's spellet HeterOsexual.
AIDS/HIV mainly affects heterosexuals (and children) in Africa and Asia and places like Haiti.
In the developed nations, basically Western countries, the majority with HIV/AIDS are homosexual and/or IV drug users.
Worldwide, two-thirds of those with HIV/AIDS are in (or from) sub-Saharan Africa ... which means the vast majority of HIV/AIDS infected people are heterosexual (or children).
and spelled is spelled s-p-e-l-l-e-d ___ lol (my bad)
Ping
If you want to have a ready answer - try the CDC website - they might have some stats there you could use.
It's political. A catchphrase. He's a warmonger, he's a Halliburton conspirator, he's destroying the environment, he was AWOL, he's stupid, he's an evil genius, he's alienated our friends, he's a unilateralist, he starves the elderly, poisons women with mercury, he hates blacks...the list is very long.
I don't know why you only hang around with people obsessed with AIDS.
I monitor the propaganda every day and the catchphrases haven't changed over to only AIDS.
In fact, this month it's the environment. Kyoto, dontcha know.
Why don't we have bubonic plague any more? People finally accepted the causation and took precautions. They never did find a cure, only a way to prevent it. Same with aids, when the idiots accept the cause it will be preventable, but in the meantime Mother Nature is doing some housecleaning.
Hetrosexual aids is a large problem in Africa, but one of Bush's earliest actions was pledging billions of dollars to help Africa fight Aids. Much more than Clinton ever dreamed about doing. Hetrosexual Aids in this country is just a small fraction.
AIDS is a human disease and it is unstopable. Medical scientist have been working on the cold virus for over 100 years and we are not any closer to a cure today than when we started.
What we have going for us is that AIDS is not spread through the air. Smart people will never get the disease, unless through a terrible accident beyond their control. Stupid people will continue to get the disease through denial or lack of love of humanity. These same people will spread it to the helpless (like children and rape victims).
There is no place on earth where you can find people that do not know how the disease is spread. But people keep speading it anyway. Its time to re-think the entire approach to the AIDS disease. Throwing money at it is fruitless. It's time to isolate and/or exterminate.
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It should have information on the CDC which show that there is not a rampate heterosexual aids. In fact most heterosexual aids cases can be traced back to a homosexual act.
Once again:
People living with AIDS
At the end of 2003, the CDC estimates that 405,926 persons were living with AIDS in the USA.
Of these,
36% were white
42% were black
20% were Hispanic
2% were of other race/ethnicity.
Of the adults and adolescents1 with AIDS, 77% were men. Of these men,
58% were men who had sex with men (MSM)
22% were injection drug users (IDU)
11% were exposed through heterosexual contact
8% were both MSM and IDU.
Of the 88,815 adult and adolescent women with AIDS,
63% were exposed through heterosexual contact
35% were exposed through injection drug use.
An estimated 1,998 children were living with AIDS at the end of 2003.
Bush Cuts AIDs Prevention Funds In 06 Budget; Abstinence Programs Get Boost (GO BUSH!!)
HIV/AIDS increases in US, but failed US approach still exported to Africa
As best I can tell anymore, people that hate President Bush hate him because they want to hate him, and then they just look around for some sort of reason. I think the real reason is that he won and thereby reversed the rising tide of socialist politicians. He heat them and they don't like it.
Oops. I should have included your name in the "to" field on post #31.
Basic Statistics
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Supplements
HIV/AIDS Statistics
HIV & AIDS Statistics
Most recent CDC report... it's a PDF and takes a few seconds to load: Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States, 2003
The one is founded at least nominally on what has always been acknowledged as good and right since the dawn of time. It is characterized by monogamy, protection of the innocent, compassion for the poor, the right to private property, and is woven throughout with monotheistic principle of a personal, just, holy, merciful, and compassionate God.
The other places man at its center: This life is all there is; Cast off restraint; If it feels good, do it, and we'll take care of the consequences; What's true for you may not be true for me. And so on.
AIDS is a consequence of immoral sexual behavior and, in some cases, of drug use. (Less commonly, in can be contracted through certain medical procedures.) All too often, children born to infected parents inherit this horrific consequence. You can see how the two worldviews would look very differently on this situation given the nature of the contraction of the disease: both see AIDS as a tragedy, but with only so many resources to go around, one is more likely to spend them on causes where the victims are not so closely linked to their behavior. The other, it seems to me, boldly stresses AIDS support precisely BECAUSE of its immoral causes.
Cancer kills millions of people. I haven't worldwide figures, but here in the US it is certainly more than AIDS - 558,000 in 2001. And cancer's causes are largely unknown but weighted to behavior patterns that are by no means immoral if somewhat foolish (like smoking). They suffer every bit as much as AIDS victims, if not more.
Sorry I don't have hard numbers, but hopefully this brief philosophical perspective will help you.
Rich blessings,