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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (9372)	4/17/2002 12:37:22 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

AIDS is overwhelmingly a male homosexual disease primarily spread by sexual contact ... something that is NOT occurring in the male heterosexual population. I assume that "something" refers to AIDS rather than sexual contact, which occurs in nearly most demographics. That is the point that I was addressing. AIDS most definitely does occur in the male heterosexual population although not as frequently as in the male homosexual population or the female heterosexual population. The fact that the cumulative cases of AIDS in LA represent 70 percent of all cases is not all that relevant. AIDS in the US started in the gay population. Any cumulative figures would be biased in that direction as would cases of AIDS rather than HIV infections. It is new cases of HIV infection, not cumulative cases of AIDS that are most relevant because they discount the canaries that got caught early and better show us what we are facing now. Less than half of new cases of HIV infection (46%, as you say) now come from male homosexual sex. In the beginning it was nearly 100 percent. As you did post from your site, the corresponding statistic for heterosexuals in N/A is 11%. Yes, I did post that. Thank you for noticing. I do try hard to be objective in my evaluation of issues. That eleven percent is up from near zero. The 46% is down from nearly all. Over time, the percentages will continue that trend line. The site doesn't say how many of the 11 percent are women and how many are men. I would imagine that most are women because the virus is more easily transmitted to women during heterosexual sex. That does not mean that it is not a problem for heterosexual men, even if they are not intravenous drug users. Heterosexual men are the safest demographic, but hardly bullet proof. To say that AIDS is not occurring in the male heterosexual population and then to challenge people to deny it is, well, feel free to fill in the blank. AIDS is no longer just a gay problem in North America as you implied.