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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
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- Subject: Re: Heterosexual AIDS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.003155.20101@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 00:31:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov23.162237.15748@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Nov23.181243.9865@leland.Stanford.EDU> <7vrq31d@lynx.unm.edu>
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- In article <7vrq31d@lynx.unm.edu> bhjelle@carina.unm.edu () writes:
- >In article <1992Nov23.181243.9865@leland.Stanford.EDU> jimbo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Godfather of Soul) writes:
- >>>That is why AIDS will not reach epidemic proportions in heterosexual
- >>>populations. It's too unlikely for women to pass it on.
- >
- >I wish I had such confidence. Then I would know to tell those
- >5,983 American men who contracted AIDS (not HIV, AIDS) from
- >sex with women that they are, well, just statistical aberrations.
-
- First of all, how many of those 6000 include Haitian male prostitutes who
- were reclassified as "heterosexual" under political pressure that disapproved
- of the "Category-II country origin" classification?
-
- Second of all, there's good reason to believe that a large number of those men
- lied about their acquisition. Studies that are more in depth than the CDC's
- classification system inevitably turn up "heterosexual" AIDS cases that turned
- out to have other risk factors that they were ashamed to admit. The New York
- City Deparment of Health study, run in 1989 on *every* AIDS victim in the city
- at that time, found a grand total of eight heterosexually-transmitted AIDS
- cases. One of which they had to reclassify after the study was released.
-
- Finally, that total is 4% of all AIDS cases. Four percent. That's about a
- twentieth of the rate in non-heterosexuals.
-
- >Been to Uganda lately? Zaire? How `bout Burma or Thailand?
- >The rates of heterosexual AIDS there might open your eyes,
- >if not give you a heart.
-
- When American heterosexuals live in the same health conditions as African
- heterosexuals, then one can claim that Africa's experience with AIDS is
- relevant to the American experience. But since female circumcision, genital
- ulcers, and unsterile needle-sharing in medical facilities is much less
- widespread in the US than in Africa, I suggest that one cannot predict
- epidemology in this country based on what has happened in Africa.
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