Keith, Ake,

There is no relevance whatever - in the context of this discussion - to these UK statistics. You keep producing them in support of a claim that HIV is a peculiarly homosexual experience. That it has been in one country is irrelevant. Globally HIV / AIDS is overwhelmingly a disease of heterosexual people both in absolute number and in terms of the percentage of sufferers in individual populations.

Do you deny that - Yes or No?

If you deny it, where is you proof.

If, as you bloody well must, you accept it; then we are agreed that all that matters is changing the risky behaviours of all people - gay, straight, black, white - and caring for the ill.

The totally irrelevant spike in the percentage of homosexual men affected by the disease in "The West" is a combination of their risky behaviour (as it is equally for the heterosexual afflicted) but mainly is a result of demographics - a smaller and very closed and concentrated group of potential carriers. C'mon Keith you're the great demographer...