Sad but true. IMO one of the most preventable epidemics in developed countries.
What is even more ironic is that militant political homosexual interest groups are the most responsible for gay deaths from AIDS than any other one factor.
Why? Simply because they have worked (very successfully) to promulgate the myth that it is a disease of the general population. 20 years later we are still waiting for the explosion in the hetero population that has not occurred.
By doing this, by forcing society to pretend that it is not [primarily] a young, gay male disease, they have convinced 2 generations of gay men that it is ok to have hundreds of partners, engaging in sodomy, etc.
The disease is rapidly increasing in 18-30 gay men...and the gay lobby is most responsible for it. People dying in a very ugly way to satisfy the priests of political correctness. Unbelieveably sad.
The latest figures from the CDC are that 50% of recent transmissions of HIV in the US are from men having sex with men, or men who have sex with men and also use injective drugs. They say 27% of recent transmissions are heterosexual. What HIV needs to be transmitted is a population of very promiscuous individuals, especially a population with poor sanitation or health care. Men who have sex with men often use drugs and often practice unprotected anal sex. Certain poor rural heterosexual black populations in the US are now experiencing alarming increases in the rates of HIV transmission. But it is true that a general, heterosexual AIDS epidemic in the US is unlikely.
Sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, has already had a devastating HIV epidemic. Contrary to the authors of the article under discussion, the evidence is abundant that HIV is the primary cause of certain African countries' recent negative population growth. Few people get tested for HIV in these regions, but statistical sampling makes it clear the virus is widespread. (HIV infection rates of 15-30% among young adults are common in sub-Saharan Africa countries.) Also, as to the argument that AIDS is claimed for tuberculosis, malaria, etc: young professionals in countries such as Botswana have been hard hit by the pandemic, in numbers far greater than can be explained by homosexual transmission.