Excerpts: "A quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.
"In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO’s department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.
“Dr De Cock said: ‘It is very unlikely there will be a heterosexual epidemic in other countries. Ten years ago a lot of people were saying there would be a generalised epidemic in Asia – China was the big worry with its huge population. That doesn’t look likely. But we have to be careful. As an epidemiologist it is better to describe what we can measure. There could be small outbreaks in some areas’.”
Although us men who have sex with men are still screwed, so to speak.
I don’t think it’s coincidental that you’re seeing a rise in the prevalence of barebacking and a stabilisation/increase in the number of gay men who have HIV in the developed world. Given that 1 in 10 gay men in London are HIV positive having unprotected sex for me would really be playing Russian roulette.
In the early days of AIDS, a big question over here was whether you could get it from mosquitoes. The conclusive answer seems to be yes, but only if they fuck you in the ass.
I thought that groups like ACT UP used the supposed universal riskiness of AIDS to all groups–not just homosexual males and drug users–as a major propaganda point. Outside of sub-Saharan Africa, hasn’t correlation (to the point of exclusivity) between these two behaviors and HIV been sort of an unspeakable elephant in the room?
