Tars… took? 
Of course you mean, “Is taking”.
And everyone knows all muppets live the fast life. They are slaves to their masters’ desires.
I gladly condemn that homo-slut muppet. I bet Oscar gave him (her?) HIV. Never screw a monster that lives in a trashcan (Seasame Street’s way of saying that Oscar is a junky, not a grouch).
I am not saying that behavioral changes are 100% effective. But until (if ever) there is a vaccine or cure, behavioral changes are the only thing anyone can do. Spending billions on something that may or may not ever work is silly when simple behavioral changes can greatly stem the growth in HIV infections. Spend a few billion on education.
Interesting. I read the original article relating to the HIV+ muppet too, and I don’t recall any mention being made of all about any implied means by which the virus had been acquired.
Rather, IIRC, the purpose of introducing the character was to address issues relating to every day contact with HIV+ people.
But then perhaps I’m not as good at reading between the lines as Brutus.
And Brutus, short of everyone in the sub-Saraha refusing to ever have sex or accept what limited medical treatment might be offered to them, I’m not sure how you perceive your suggestions as involving “simple behavioural changes”.
“Apparently it is next to impossible to get many people there to change behaviour”
I think it’s pretty much the same in the US too:
““AIDS is far from over in the United States,” says Carlos del Rio
of Emory University in Atlanta. Statistics presented revealed that HIV
continues to plague the gay community. A study of over 2,000 gay men
ages 23 to 29 in Baltimore, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York,
and Seattle found that
the virus infected 7 percent of white men, 15
percent of Hispanics, and 30 percent of African-Americans. Only a
third of those infected knew they had HIV.”
They said that education was the key in this article.
(For the rest of the article: U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 19,2001)