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Thread #125426   Message #2833696
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
09-Feb-10 - 04:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Not everyone is driven by their ideological agendas Royston.
I am just trying to establish the facts.
I am sorry if the facts are not to your liking.

This may help your research.
Africans in the UK are diagnosed with HIV at a far higher rate than other ethnic groups, having comparable number of diagnoses to white people, despite being a far smaller percentage of the overall population.http://www.avert.org/uk-statistics.htm

Black African men and women accounted for 70% of the total diagnosed
infections in heterosexuals and 51% of the undiagnosed infections.
3.6 HIV prevalence among African-born women giving birth in 2002 was 2.47%, up from 1.5% in 1997.
By contrast, the prevalence in UK-born women was 0.03% in 2002 and was unchanged from 1997.
3.7 Between 1997 and 2003, there was a 351% increase in patients seen for care in England, Wales and
Northern Ireland who had been infected heterosexually. Within this sub-group, the largest increase has
been in Black African patients. Of the 15,726 heterosexual men and women seen for care in England,
Wales and Northern Ireland in 2003 for whom ethnicity was reported, 70% (11068) were Black African,
19% (3009) were white and 4% (657) Black Caribbean. Africans feature in all the main transmission
routes for HIV, but most cases of HIV diagnosed in the UK were reported as heterosexually acquired.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/dr_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_4099052.pdf

Overall, three quarters of all respondents were sexually active in the last year. More than half had a
regular sexual partner, which was more common in men than in women. One-in-four of the people
with regular partners said they had other sexual relationships outside the regular relationship, again
more common in men than women.
In addition, one-in-ten who said they had sex in the last year reported definitely or probably having
sexual intercourse without a condom with someone of a different HIV status to themselves (sdUI).
The risk of sdUI increased with larger numbers of sexual partners. Individuals who reported having
sex with both men and women were more likely to have multiple sexual partners than those who
reported sex with opposite sex or same sex partners only.
• Interventions to reduce potentially sero-discordant unprotected intercourse should target
those in multiple sexual relationships, particularly men.
A quarter of all respondents who said they had sex in the last year never used condoms. Those with
fewer sexual partners, and in a regular sexual relationship (especially a monogamous relationship)
were less likely to use condoms. Condom use was more common in men than in women, and mostly
reported by those aged between twenty and thirty nine years. Among those who used condoms, a
third experienced condom failure.
• Current levels of condom failure seem very high and may be detracting from their use.
Interventions to increase the use of condoms should always include elements to ensure
minimum condom failure.
http://www.nahip.org.uk/downloads/477.pdf