"...if you discount infection acquired abroad"

...and discount this and that and anything that points away from it being a gay plague, gay caused, spread and proliferating. I am not saying that is what YOU mean but so many would use the statistics to point that way. The fact is that on a global scale this is a human problem. No discounting... it has the potential to affect all of us in some way or another. Allowing gay men to be the scapegoats only puts off the real work that has to be done. Once that mist has finally been disposed of then the true effects can be seen... in all populations (I am only talking about sexually transmitted HIV/AIDS here and not other infectious routes).

ALL respsonsible adults, who have free open sexual encounters, of all sexualities have to play their part. This is the only way to stem this tide. People put their own house in order and help others do the same. As far as I am aware the gay population is trying a lot to educate and put their own house in order. One cannot discount anything. ALL causes have to be looked at and their effects limited.

Can you imagine if this had been the other way around? Where HIV/AIDS only hit straight populations first? Do you think the gay folk would then have blamed straights for giving it them? It's a stupid argument really to blame anyone.

Make no bones about it. This disease is about sex, sex, sex and what people see as vile what others do. How many people catch flu off each other every year? How many die of that? No-one blames one part of the population for it. But I guarantee if flu was sexually transmitted then all sorts of judgements would be passed as to who was responisble. It's a disease. An Illness. It affects human beings. Do we really need scapegoats? What we need is a cure...

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