""Lox, your dogleg represents the establishment, mostly in London, of communities of people of African origin.
The rise in heterosexual infections is almost wholly confined to that single high risk group.""

Really Keith, are you naturally dim, or did you have to train.

UK acquired infections have risen by 500%.

Whether the recipients are of British or African descent is a red herring.

The operative phrase here, is "UK acquired infections".

It matters not one jot if they be black, white, or pink with purple spots. The important thing is that they became infected in the UK, and that means the pool is widening and deepening, which knocks the linear argument into a cocked hat.

Even that is not the important point here.

The bottom line is that, unless we stop thinking of HIV/AIDS as a homosexual problem, and recognise that it is not a matter of gender orientation, but rather of unsafe sexual practises, then the heterosexual aspect will eventually assume African proportions.

This would be a catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude.

Just consider the close proximity of life in our towns and cities, and compare it to the much more thinly spread population of the African continent. Any serious increase in the UK transmission pool would vastly increase the potential for epidemic.

Don T.