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Thread #125426   Message #2821241
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
25-Jan-10 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Don, Royston may have clearly stated them to be UK acquired, but he has got it wrong.
Here is the site again.
http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1237970242135
Here is the explanation given about the tables incuding table A on page 6
Definitions used
HIV infected individual: an individual for whom HIV diagnosis and/or AIDS, and/or death with HIV
infection has been reported.
AIDS case: The European AIDS case definition is used for AIDS surveillance in the UK. It is based on
that developed in USA as modified in 1987 and 1993, but does not include a CD4 count of less than
200 in an HIV infected person as AIDS defining.
Death in an HIV infected individual: these include AIDS and non AIDS related deaths.
Date of HIV diagnosis: This is taken to be the date of the first HIV defining event for an individual in
the UK, for example, a laboratory report of HIV infection or a diagnosis of AIDS. Tables summarising
events over time are produced using the date of HIV diagnosis (and not the date of report). This
means that numbers, particularly for recent years, will rise as a result of receiving further reports.

I expect you will both want to apologize and retract.
Most of those heteros diagnosed here were infected in Africa.