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To: Polycarp
Wow, this is quite a charge:

Up to 70% of HIV infections in Africa, according to a recently published study in the peer-reviewed International Journal of STD and AIDS, occur as a result of substandard health care, primarily HIV transmission through reuse of needles.(4)

If it's true, don't expect to hear about it on broadcast news or any newspaper near you.

3 posted on 04/29/2003 2:44:05 PM PDT by RAT Patrol (Congress can give one American a dollar only by first taking it away from another American. -W.W.)
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To: RAT Patrol
Wow, this is quite a charge:

Up to 70% of HIV infections in Africa, according to a recently published study in the peer-reviewed International Journal of STD and AIDS, occur as a result of substandard health care, primarily HIV transmission through reuse of needles.(4)

On the other hand, almost all African women are mutilated by "female circumcision", making vaginal intercourse painful. So ... they prefer anal intercourse.

I remember seeing a documentary some time ago that asserted that the chances of an infected male transmitting HIV to the recipient of anal intercourse (male or female) is about 1 in 3, while the chances of an uninfected male receiving it from an infected recipient of anal intercourse is like 1 in 30, and more like 1 in 300 if the male is circumcized. So this would be at least a contributory factor.

8 posted on 04/29/2003 3:03:20 PM PDT by Mack the knife
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To: RAT Patrol
This would parallel the tendency for food-aid programs to result in the total denuding of the landscape local to the distribution points, and a further societal breakdown. A little help, developing a dependency, which in turn causes great damage in side-effects.
36 posted on 04/30/2003 8:01:35 AM PDT by lepton
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