""You say I am prejudiced, yet YOU have advanced NO views on cutting infection rates!""

Every infectious disease which has been conquered since the invention of medical treatment on the grand scale, has been conquered with the same sequence of events.

First find a way to control the disease, reduce and eventually prevent deaths.

Second, with more time to spare, find a cure.

In the case of HIV, the first has been achieved and research into the second is proceeding apace.

There isn't a single instance in the history of science of any disease being wiped out by humans avoiding the sources of infection, and HIV will not be eradicated by stopping homosexuals from indulging in sexual activity.

HIV will be beaten as was polio. A vaccine will be found and HIV will disappear.

Since that search is well under way and annual deaths from AIDS related causes are lower than the death toll related to alcohol abuse or smoking, restrictive measures only make sense to those whose ratinale is based on revulsion, not concern.

Don T.