# Current AIDS stats **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-aids-stats/117926 "2002-07-08T16:28:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-aids-stats/117926/1 "2002-07-08T16:28:10Z")
I read this on CNN this morning and it blew my mind: > [@](#): > > Worldwide, 20 million people have died of AIDS complications and 40 million are infected, researchers told the 14th international AIDS conference Sunday. Most of the cases are in Africa, where effective treatment is rare, and the fastest-growing population of patients is in Russia, where IV drug use is rampant. I really had no idea that the number of AIDS deaths and infections was that high. :eek: That’s truly frightening! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-aids-stats/117926/2 "2002-07-08T17:21:02Z")
Even more frightening is the recent claim that three-fourths of American with AIDS _don’t even know they have it_! ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-aids-stats/117926/3 "2002-07-08T17:32:20Z")
[Here](http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/08/health/08AIDS.html?ex=1026705600&en=4562dda9caaf53b9&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1)’s a news link that may only be good for a few hours. It’s hard to not think, in this day, that the high number of those unaware of their infection are not the products of their own willful ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-aids-stats/117926/4 "2002-07-08T18:08:27Z")
I tried starting a thread in IMHO regarding this very subject, but no one has responded. It references the thread a couple weeks ago where someone reminded one of the gay posters about safe sex and he went off in a rage about how dare anyone remind the gay population when they’re the ones living the nightmare, etc. etc. It’s sad to say, but I think everyone got a little too comfortable and let their guard down. It is a truly frightening scenario, and I don’t know what the answer is. Are these numbers inflated? Is there an ulterior motive if they are inflated? ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-aids-stats/117926/5 "2002-07-08T23:38:00Z")
In the SF Chronicle this Sunday was a front page article about how there is now a special HIV variant resistant to drugs. In other words, its adapted. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-aids-stats/117926/6 "2002-07-08T23:41:20Z")
I also wonder what the straight people stats are on this?