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Thanks for the ping, grlfrnd. As you know, I commissioned book on women and aids in '92, found a woman doctor to write it. She'd been first doc in her city to treat AIDS patients and test for HIV at her office, so she knew everyone who had it and everything about them.

Many women have AIDS, today it's one of top killers of teenage girls, etc. etc. But! We could not get the author on Oprah, Sally, or any other tv shows to publicize her book and tell women to be careful because the ditzy young producers who book guests for those shows refused to believe women could catch AIDS. Every time I look at Oprah, I blame her personally for deaths of many women who might have been educated by a show she would not put on the air.

Interesting that recent study -- a large one-- showed that AIDS/HIV was misdiagnosed or undiagnosed in an enormous number of women, virtually all of the white and Asian. Doctors don't think they "fit the profile" of AIDS victim. That's how badly the news has been botched by the stupid liberals....you can find a thousand artilcles on AIDS and minority women, but the study I cite, conducted by UCLA, etc., goes unreported.

Vets_Husband_and_Wife, this thread is for you. Please read Mrs. Jennrette's comments. She says it well and I totally agree.

Yes, women can become infected with the HIV virus. However, statistically, their chances are much lower. The reason? It is less likely that infected body fluids of their sexual partner will come into contact with the woman's blood. Why? Because the vagina is a tough organ that does not bleed easily, even when battered, because of its inherent elastic nature.

However, some things increase the risk of a woman getting HIV from an HIV+ man. The main things are: (1) pre-existing venereal diseases or other vaginal infections that cause inflammation and increased likelihood of contact with bleeding tissue, (2) anal sex, because rectal tissue, unlike the vagina, is very friable and bleeds easily, and (3) violent sex that results in bloody bodily fluid exchange (gross, I know, but it's a fact, sorry).

Now, these facts do not set well with the P.C. set because it is in their interests to insist that EVERYONE is equally susceptible to the virus. That is simply not true.

Another case of P.C. madness in the medical field is the ridiculous insistence by the medical community that EVERY woman over a certain age have Pap smear tests annually or every other year. The truth is that 99% of all cervical cancer cases are directly attributable to genital warts. If you do not have warts on your genitalia (which are, BTW, incurable), it is NOT necessary and a waste of your insurer's money to have annual Pap smears. Women should continue to have pelvic exams at their time of their annual physical, but the Pap is not needed unless they have the warts (human papilloma virus). Period.