Based on estimates from the United Nations AIDS program (UNAIDS), approximately 47 million people have been infected with HIV since the start of the global epidemic. Through December 2000, an estimated 21.8 million children and adults have died, and an estimated 36.1 million people are living with HIV infection or AIDS.
your right, I overestimated. But still that's a heck of a lot of homo's or butt lovers in Africa.
"But still that's a heck of a lot of homo's or butt lovers in Africa."
As odd as this sounds (and I have read up on the topic, so this is accurate) there are key differences in how heterosexuals perform intercourse in some parts of Africa. The same subcultures that practice female circumcision also believe that "dry sex" is preferable and more godly in the eyes of Allah. If you can imagine sex without lubrication of any sort, it would also be easier to imagine how heterosexual intercourse could spread disease... direct blood-to-blood or blood-to-bodily fluid contact.
This would also help explain why heterosexual transmission is fairly rare among women who do not have other STD's that would cause open sores in the genital region.
I've read a few articles that attribute African AIDS to miscounts of cases of endemic diseases. Poor diagnostic testing and favorable payment schemes contribute to the overcounting in Africa.