"Globally HIV / AIDS is overwhelmingly a disease of heterosexual people both in absolute number and in terms of the percentage of sufferers"
Yes, I do agree.
We are perhaps at cross purposes.
I assumed Ake had been considering the Western/developed countries in which almost all Mudcat members live.
In these Western/developed countries HIV / AIDS is overwhelmingly a disease of homosexual men both in absolute number and in terms of the percentage of sufferers, if you discount infection acquired abroad.