From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Re: Heterosexual AIDS
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:55:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.201557.3326@netnews.noc.drexel.edu> giamomj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Mike G.) writes:
>>$4 billion is enough for AIDS research.  Other people with other
>>diseases are suffering, too.  Any more money for AIDS would take away
>>from research in other important areas.


	Item:  More men are getting prostate cancer each year.
	The numbers are rapidly approaching the number of women
	who get breast cancer, and prostate cancer is less treatable.
	<For those interested, testicular cancer is getting up there,
	too> 

	Prostate cancer get's maybe 1/10th the funding that breast 
	cancer gets, both kill more people each year than AIDS does
	or will until the year 2000 (even if WHO is correct _this_
	time).

	Let's not even talk about the 370,000 deaths _directly_ 
	caused by cigarret smoking.

	How many people died from AIDS last year?  How many from
	non-nicotine related cancer?



>Too bad you don't see the forrest through the trees. AIDS is fast
>becoming the
>number one killer of young males and females in the US. The biggest
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	L I E 



>with AIDS vs. cancer, heart disease, MS, diabetes, etc. is that it is
>*contagious*....everybody like sex...not everyone protects themselves.



	HIV is contagious, yes.  But it's also _completely_ preventable.
	We've all heard the best protection, abstinence.  Well, that
	doesn't work--but a condom sure as hell does.

	The don't protect themselves?  

	Then they are stupid.  Anyone who can who can hear OR see
	has been told countless times what AIDS is and what the consequences
	are.  Rather than take the 30 seconds out to use a condom 
	(or just using lame excuses--"I didn't _have_ one!") they 
	are too busy rutting.

	Hell, good riddance. The have no sympathy from me.

	<This does not apply to a huge proportion of people contracting
	_aids_ now, because they, really, didn't know any better 
	way back when.  But that doesn't excuse people _now_..>



>God help those who don't. You, James are going to be attending a lot of
>funerals in the future as AIDS *does* play "catch-up" in the hetero
>community.


	I doubt it.  It is unlikely that HIV will make great penetration
	into mainstream heterosexual society.  It has one main transmission
	vector, unprotected intercourse, and that one is pretty weak
	(i.e. a man who has sex with an infected woman is playing
	russian roulette--but the chances are _still_ in his favor)
	relatively speaking.  There are fool-proof ways*, and near-fool
	proof ways (condoms) to block it.  

	The bodily fluid chances--i.e. a dentists office, etc... a 
	nurse in a hospital, etc--are so low as to be irrelavent to 
	the general population.

	WHOs predictions of AIDS spread are interesting, but they
	aren't looking at the situation inside the United States,
	which is all that matters to 99% of US citizens.  

	On the subject of AIDS predictions, does anyone have any figures
	on the any central american countries?  

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