Casting AIDS as a disease of Homos (and drug addicts) is considered bigoted. There is only a 1 in 1000 chance that unprotected heterosexual intercourse with an AIDS carrier will lead to transmission of the virus (slightly higher for men to women than women to men), but it increases 10 to 100 fold for gay sex. If the disease affected mostly a small proportion of (a deviant) population, there was no way it could get the amount of attention or funding for research that it has. So there was a big movement with the help of the media to try and portray AIDS as a mainstream disease that could affect just about anyone. We have all seen the ads. In reality the vast majority of AIDS transmissions occur from gay sex, sharing needles and contaminated blood transfusion. As for Africa, first of all the
situation isn't as bad as the media has been telling us for years, and secondly the # 1 cause is contamination resulting from poor hygienic conditions in hospitals.
my dtr suffers from spasmodic tortacollis and I have a inlaw relative who has ALS.....wouldn't it be nice if these horrible disorders had 10% of the Aids funding plus the perennial public marches,collections,educational offerings .
people are dying very young of cancer yet they seem not as important as the typical Aids patient....
I just don't get it....