Royston, you are pretending to believe that I meant AIDS did not reach Asia, China and Russia.
You know that I meant it did not spread into the straight community as it did in Africa, even without the government programmes that you claim is all that spared straights in the West.
You selected the statistic of only 1% of infections being gay in Russia. Read a little further and you find,

Official figures show that men who have sex with men (MSM) are a relatively small proportion of total HIV cases in the region in comparison to Western European and North American nations. Unprotected male-to-male sex accounted for less than 1% of newly registered cases in Russia in 2006,

However, it is believed that the epidemic is thriving among this group but is being kept hidden and underreported due to a reluctance by MSM to reveal the cause of their infection for fear of stigmatisation|