[David Hunter]

Stavka, here's why just blaming all those horrible homosexuals for the spread of HIV is totally counterproductive. It makes you believe that if you ban homosexuality, as you wish to, then you can stop AIDS spreading. Well learn the lesson from Britain, Africa, Asia etc, where HIV is more commonly spread by heterosexual than homosexual activity.

President Reagan also ignored the USA's early AIDS epidemic because he thought it was just a problem for gays and drug addicts. Now AIDS is a major problem for heterosexuals in the USA. Russia will go the same way unless you lot wake up to the fact that AIDS is a problem for heterosexuals too.

[matrix]

You're right now. Fifteen years ago, the "gay, drug users" argument may have been valid, but no more.

[goody2shooz]

I don't ever recall anyone saying "if gays were banned then AIDS would go away".

What I remember being said twenty years ago, and very loudly at that juncture, was that the promiscuous lifestyle of SOME homosexual men must stop so HIV/AIDS can be either reduced and/or eliminated. (Discussions concerning quarantine of infected individuals were prevalent and hotly debated during that period, too.)

This whole situation caught my attention. I was in the Navy when AIDS began to infect sailors, some gay and some straight. I vividly recall the debate as I was stationed in Europe and most the cases occurring there were either sea-going sailors OR land-based Army personnel in Germany.

[David Hunter]

Here is some evidence that heterosexual transmission of AIDS is more common in many countries than homosexual transmission.

A quote from here: 'Numbers of heterosexually acquired HIV infections diagnosed in the UK have risen steadily over the last 15 years and since 1999 have been greater than the number acquired through sex between men. The total of new diagnoses of HIV in those infected heterosexually is expected to rise to over 1500 for 1999.'

The same thing has been seen in the Carribean countries. See the following quote from here: 'The Caribbean Epidemiological Center (CAREC) member countries (CAREC/CMC) are reporting a high incidence of female AIDS cases. The average male to female sex ratio in annual AIDS cases reported to CAREC declined from 4:1 in 1985 to 2:1 in 1996, with some variation between countries. The cumulative number of female AIDS cases increased 19 fold during the same period, reaching 540 in 1995.'

To see a report from the United Nations which proves that AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, the Carribean and South East Asia is mainly spread heterosexually click here.

[happygrl]

Now AIDS is a major problem for heterosexuals in the USA.

No, it is not. More of the lies. It is a problem among drug-injection-using heterosexuals.

Despite the prediction for years that HIV will become rampant among heterosexual Americans, it has not.

[Don Myers]

The aids plague began with the gays and drug users. It has since spread to the heteosexual community. So, he is not wrong.

[Stavka2]

Gee, thanks for putting words in my mouth...exactly when did I say that banning homosexuality would end AIDS? Please a quote.