[aruanan]

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.

I didn't ignore anything. I said that about half the HIV cases were heterosexual. But that's heterosexual HIV cases from at least 98% of a >300,000,000 population versus about twice that number that from less than 2% of that population. As far as "disproportionate amount of those being heterosexual women" note that total males with HIV from some kind of sexual contact is over 30,000 compare to about 8,500 for women, more than 3:1.

As far as "there are no reliable AIDS/HIV stats," that's awfully convenient because it allows you to argue almost anything.

[harmonium]

...But I’m not arguing “almost anything”.

I’m arguing in very general terms that anyone misleading the Freeper community to think they are less at risk...or saying anything vaguely suggestive that Homosexuals and Drug Users make up the bulk of AIDS victims.... is doing a disservice, and playing off outdated information.

Relying on statistics would also enable erroneous thinking such as “well I’m not a Black female living in DC, Florida, or California, so I’m not at risk”.

There are no solid stats. You won’t find accurate world numbers, you won’t find two studies using the same methodology, and studies are rarely updated yearly. There’s too much of an industry to manipulate the numbers for their purposes, depending on if they want to make one group look at risk or less at risk, just as *you* did.

AIDS and HIV are not a homosexual thing, or a drug user thing. Please don’t mislead anyone into thinking otherwise. There was a time when nobody would have suspected Black Females would become the hardest hit demographic.