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- From: entropy@world.std.com (The Entropic one)
- Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
- Subject: Re: Number of partners unimportant?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.152712.22602@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 07:04:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.140132.3965@cs.ucla.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan23.140132.3965@cs.ucla.edu> rad!arthur@uunet.UU.NET (Arthur Hu) writes:
- >My question is this - are there anys studies that show what the HIV
- >rate is for gays or hetero-folk with large numbers of partners who
- >use condoms all the time? It seems that there is a critical HIV
- >prevalence rate at which even unremarkable behavior - say 5 lifetime
- >partners with partners not at risk - still puts an individual at risk.
- >This seems to be the conclusion of the study in Florida where 8% of
- >black pregnant women were HIV+, and 30% of the women were at no
- ^^^^^^^^
- >unusual risk.
-
- There is a large correlation between pregnancy and lack of condom
- use. Even with one heterosexual married partner in the missionary position :-)
-
- >So in a gay population that is 10% to 30% HIV+,
-
- And an author who over estimates or underestimates by a factor of
- 4 when convient.
-
- >isn't
- >it possible that even sex with condoms with a small number of
- >partners would still spread a significant number of AIDS cases?
-
- I think it would depend on the kind of sex, there would be a big
- difference between oral sex and anal sex using motor oil as lube...
-
- >And since people do not use condoms 100% of the time,
-
- People who value there lives do.
-
- >espeically in
- >conjunction with alchohol or drugs,
-
- drug war hysteria
-
- >isn't it a good idea to reduce
- >the number of partners anyways? Am I correct in that the general
- >consensus is that thou shalt not advocate reducing number of partners?
-
- You convinced me, I'll cut down from having 0 sex last week to having
- only 1/3rd as much this week...
-
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