Keith,

if the increase in locally acquired HIV in the UK hhad been from 9% to 15% over 5 years, you might be able to say that it was just a reasonable fluctuation.

However, for it to increase 5 fold in so few years is dramatic in the extreme, and evidence of a sea change.

As more are infected, so more run the risk of being infected etc, with the result that the Gap will continue to close ever faster.

The fact that Gay men have been proportionately more likely to be HIV positive has been a phenomenon.

It won't be long before that phenomenon is past tense.

And anyone who agues that resources should diverted away from heterosexual HIV education into HIV education for Gays and Africans would have to be wilful, obstinate and deeply irresponsible in the extreme.

In fact, the ony reason to continue supporting a view like that would be a deliberate clinging on to untenable views of homosexuals and Africans.

We already know that Ake is racist as he has ignored stats in the past to press home his idea that foreigners are responsible for the credit crunch, and he has slandered Moslems and Tinkers, and he has also described Gays as a scourge with a natural propensity to abuse children, and described in detail just how his imagination gets all steamed up at the thought of Gay men having sex.

So it shold be no surprise that he has an agenda when it comes to "caring" for homosexuals health.