At most, about five percent of Aids patients are heterosexuals who likely got the disease from someone who was not at high risk, says Dr Monina Klevens, co-author of a study by the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But heterosexuals who suspected or even knew their partners were infected, overwhelmingly ignored their risk, the study found. This could explain the very high levels of heterosexual infection in countries such as South Africa.
US statistics show that no more than five percent of all Aids cases involve heterosexual sex among people who weren't in high-risk groups, Klevens says.
"And we know that's an overestimate," Klevens says. "Most cases are still because someone had sex with someone who had a primary risk factor."
In the United States, high-risk groups for Aids include gay men (currently 42 percent of Aids patients), IV-drug users (25 percent) and people who have had transfusions.
As for Ryan White, tragic as it was, some of us are put here on Earth for a higher purpose. His life story significantly changed the way we look at AIDS and control it (blood screening and education), which has kept heterosexual HIV under control in the US with the exception of intravenous drug users and those who engage in risky sex practices or have unprotected sex with partners who do so. Those in underdeveloped countries have not had the education nor do they have controls in place and children born of infected adults who contracted the disease because of risky behavior are clearly the victims of that and my heart goes out to them.
God comes up with AIDS but let's His Chosen People be sent to death camps, let's Communism slaughter millions
God did not "let" these things happen...man did, you forgot he gave us free will, we ultimately choose whether to use it for right or wrong.
Uh, do you grasp the concept of getting one someone else's level and using their 'idiom' in order to communicate basic concepts?
You spoke of AIDS being the punishment for gay and other sexual sin. This sin is a CHOICE. Free will, right?
Well, so are the murderous actions of tyrants and ideologues throughout history but especially the 20th.
So why not punish them similarly?
That's my point--NO ONE is really punished for their evil by the divine.
I only take issue with the idea that somehow AIDS or other aspects of living in a world with viruses, bacteria, accidents, natural disasters and the actions of human beings are a result of retribution divine rather than life just sucking eggs in many respects.