# Is AIDS overexaggerated in Africa and Asia?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 30, 2006, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-aids-overexaggerated-in-africa-and-asia/342172 "2006-01-30T05:20:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-aids-overexaggerated-in-africa-and-asia/342172/21 "2006-02-02T11:19:07Z")

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Wait and see what happens in [Lesotho](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1894037,00.html).

I’d say that will be a pretty definitive statistically valid sample.

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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-aids-overexaggerated-in-africa-and-asia/342172/22 "2006-02-02T11:40:57Z")

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a lot the China cases are from selling tainted blood/plasma. This practice is now stopped but has virtually infected everyone from certain locales. It’s a lot different from STD in a country where condoms are the birth control method.

Look at the AIDs level in Thailand, which very proactively promotes condom use and has a significant sex trade.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-aids-overexaggerated-in-africa-and-asia/342172/23 "2006-02-02T13:01:15Z")

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> [@irishgirl](#):
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> Wait and see what happens in [Lesotho](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1894037,00.html).
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> I’d say that will be a pretty definitive statistically valid sample.

Link leads to a blank page. Got another?

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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-aids-overexaggerated-in-africa-and-asia/342172/24 "2006-02-02T14:23:56Z")

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Sorry, it works for me.  
The link leads to a Times article about the fact that the king of lesotho is launching a policy of universal AIDS testing for everyone aged over 12 in the kingdom, which has a population of 2.2 million and has an estimated HIV/AIDS incidence of about 35%.

Here are some more links.

[Link 1](http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=39941&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=LESOTHO)  
[Link 2](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4480108.stm)  
[Link 3](http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2005/10/23/dire_situation_drastic_measures/)

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