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Big_Bird
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Come on lads...who wants HIV-proofing!?
<Big_Bird waves a set of rusty menacing-looking shears around the forum....> |
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Junior
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:57 am Post subject: |
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I too smell pseudo-science.
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Like the link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer?  |
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thepeel
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Related to the idea that women make up the "largest group of new infections". Here is some data about who gets HIV and how.
(data from the University of Washington)
http://depts.washington.edu/hivaids/post/case5/fig1d.html
Clearly, male-female transmission just isn't efficient enough to cause an epidemic.
HIV affect homosexuals and IV drug users because behaviors those two groups participate in are more risky. Circumcision seems to make sex more safe for the male when his the penetrative partner, be it in heterosexual or homosexual sex. |
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