[neverdem]

You are buying into their lies. Monogamous heterosexuals have nothing to fear.

If you say so, it must be true. /sarcasm

Please check the link in comment 10. Monogamous heterosexuals are reduced to trusting that their spouses or significant others, believe me I don't care for the latter term, never engage in high risk behavior. How do you explain the transmission to females, and the perinatal infection of their offspring, from bisexuals and intravenous drug users whose habits were not disclosed to them? Heterosexual contact accounts for 56,403 males and 93,586 females infected for a total of 149,989 estimated # of AIDS cases through 2003.

[EKrusling]

neverdem wrote: Heterosexual contact accounts for 56,403 males and 93,586 females infected for a total of 149,989 estimated # of AIDS cases through 2003.

You're ignoring here the total number of infections as given in your chart. The 150k infections figure, while tragic, is hardly significant.

The chart you reference shows 920,566 total AIDS cases since 2003. Your 149,989 number for heterosexual transfers makes up about 16.3% of that. Compare those transmission figures to the demographics of the entire population.

Note that 150k number relates to all heterosexual transmissions of the syndrome. We might expect monogamous individuals to be at even lower risk. How many of these are individuals who engage in high risk activities to increase their likelihood of infection, but still fall into this category.