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To: eastsider
Of that 6.7%, condoms would be ineffective in preventing transmission 13.4% of the time.

How could anyone ever come to that conclusion? Your saying that people who got HIV, 13.4% would have still gotten it even if they ahd used condoms? No one could know that and there is no way to determine that. If I misunderstood your statistics, please be mroe clear.

26 posted on 02/14/2003 1:07:43 PM PST by FreeTally
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To: FreeTally
Your saying that people who got HIV, 13.4% would have still gotten it even if they ahd used condoms?
Assuming the accuracy of the NIH study (see link in post #4 above), yes. The NIH study concluded that condoms had an 85% effective rate in preventing HIV transmission. As I see it, it follows that condoms would have been ineffective in preventing HIV transmission 15% of the time.
29 posted on 02/14/2003 1:23:23 PM PST by eastsider
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