AIDS is a gay disease just as cancer is a smoker's disease.
Thursday December 11th, 2003. This is show #243.
Thursday December 11th, 2003. This is show #243.
AIDS is a gay disease just as cancer is a smoker's disease
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Free-Agent Smith
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I agree that a great many smokers have died from cancer and that smoke could cause lung cancer. But not all smokers die from lung cancer.
I agree that through the many studies that have been conducted over the last 30 years that homosexuals and bi-sexual drug users happen to have the highest rate of AIDS/HIV infection. I also understand that through those two groups that it has spread to a large number of heterosexuals also.
While cancer can't always be tracked to it's original cause, many would like to accuse smokers, HIV/AIDS can usually* be tracked back to some form of sexual behavior and/or drug use with needles.
*Key word here is usually. I do understand that HIV/AIDS has been contracted through blood transfusions but that is from not properly screening donors.
I agree that through the many studies that have been conducted over the last 30 years that homosexuals and bi-sexual drug users happen to have the highest rate of AIDS/HIV infection. I also understand that through those two groups that it has spread to a large number of heterosexuals also.
While cancer can't always be tracked to it's original cause, many would like to accuse smokers, HIV/AIDS can usually* be tracked back to some form of sexual behavior and/or drug use with needles.
*Key word here is usually. I do understand that HIV/AIDS has been contracted through blood transfusions but that is from not properly screening donors.
Free-Agent Smith
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The children didn't violate the rules. The birth parents violated the rules and their children are paying for it.
Did you really need to ask a riduculous question like that?
wiseman
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In 2002 5 million people became infected with HIV. This is the equivalent of 13,699 new infections each day. 800,000 of these newly infected individuals were children. 70 % of the world's cases of HIV are in Sub Saharan Africa and are not related to homosexual behaviour.
At the end of 2002 there were 42 million people infected with HIV 1/2 of these people are women.
At the end of 2002 there were 42 million people infected with HIV 1/2 of these people are women.
Nineveh
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wiseman,
Here in America our stats are different. The latest report from Seatle has 1 in 7 homo men infected. I did the math from the latest CDC studies released at the time, it breaks down to 1 in 20 nationally.
Maybe people who donate infected blood should be held accountable for the innocent people who are infected.
Here in America our stats are different. The latest report from Seatle has 1 in 7 homo men infected. I did the math from the latest CDC studies released at the time, it breaks down to 1 in 20 nationally.
Maybe people who donate infected blood should be held accountable for the innocent people who are infected.
wiseman
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That's a bit ethnocentric I'm giving you the world figures, you're giving me figures from one American city. In seven countries in the southern cone Africa, one adult in five lives with HIV. HIV is not an American disease -- It is a worldwide problem centred primarily in Africa.
Nineveh
Merely Christian
Here in America homosexual men are still the highest at risk group.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasr1402/table1.htm
The way Africa is taking care of their problems is by targeting the highest at risk behavior. If America was a nation in Africa, we would be advised to target the highest at risk behavior.
Further reading.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasr1402/table1.htm
The way Africa is taking care of their problems is by targeting the highest at risk behavior. If America was a nation in Africa, we would be advised to target the highest at risk behavior.
Further reading.
wiseman
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Nineveh
Look carefully at the stats presented by the CDC
in 2002 here's the breakdown of new HIV infections in America:
11,701 male to male sexual contact
2757 males injection drug use
3234 males heterosexual contact
164 males other (hemophilia, transfusion, perinatal)
1418 females injection drug use
5949 females sexual contact
136 females (other)
This yields a total of 13,658 cases of non male to male sexual contact. In other words less than 1/2 the cases are among homosexual men.
Look carefully at the stats presented by the CDC
in 2002 here's the breakdown of new HIV infections in America:
11,701 male to male sexual contact
2757 males injection drug use
3234 males heterosexual contact
164 males other (hemophilia, transfusion, perinatal)
1418 females injection drug use
5949 females sexual contact
136 females (other)
This yields a total of 13,658 cases of non male to male sexual contact. In other words less than 1/2 the cases are among homosexual men.
Mustard Seed
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Aids afflicts the adulterous as well as others. Your attempt to pin it down like this is wrong.
I believe it can be used at as methood of punishing the wicked but to pin it to just those with homosexual tendancies is WRONG.
I believe it can be used at as methood of punishing the wicked but to pin it to just those with homosexual tendancies is WRONG.
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