[aruanan]

I’m not trying to give a PSA here, but the outdated notion that HIV and AIDS are a “Gay Cancer”, and written off as something which occurs predominantly amongst druggies and homosexuals, is dangerously ignorant and misleading.

According to the CDC, the numbers for 40 states in 2009 are as follows:

Transmission Category	Estimated Number of Diagnoses of HIV Infection, 2009
	Adult and Adolescent Males	Adult and Adolescent Females	Total
Male-to-male sexual contact	23,846	-	23,846
Injection drug use	2,449	1,483	3,932
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	1,131	-	1,131
Heterosexual contact*	4,399	8,461	12,860
Other**	47	29	76

* Heterosexual contact with a person known to have, or to be at high risk for, HIV infection.
** Includes hemophilia, blood transfusion, perinatal exposure, and risk not reported or not identified.

The distribution of the estimated number of diagnoses of HIV infection among children* in the 40 states with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting, by transmission category, follows:

Transmission Category	Estimated Number of Diagnoses of HIV Infection, 2009
Perinatal	131
Other**	35

* The term "children" refers to persons under age 13 years at the time of diagnosis.
** Includes hemophilia, blood transfusion, and risk not reported or not identified.

So you see that less than about 2% of the population by sexual orientation carries more than twice the number of HIV infections as the other 98%. The numbers for HIV through intravenous drug use apart from sexual activity amount to about 1/10 that of sexual activity. So the two biggest means of HIV transmission are sexual activity (homosexual > heterosexual by more than 2:1 in raw numbers, unadjusted by population) and intravenous drug use. This all means that an extremely small number of individuals are responsible for the largest portion of HIV infections.

[harmonium]

See, it doesn’t help that you’re now trying to statistically argue the idea that the Freeper demographic is less at risk.

There are no reliable AIDS/HIV stats. Sorry. You were quick to ignore the stats in your own table though, which show more than half the cases were heterosexuals, with a disproportionate amount of those being heterosexual women.