From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: CDC Summary 8/12/92
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:52:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.180502.8155@cs.ucla.edu> Billi Goldberg <bigoldberg@igc.apc.org> writes:
>sexual behavior.  The public-service ad  campaign, titled "Get High, Get 
>Stupid, Get AIDS," is  unprecedented in that it uses animation to 

Wasn't there a recent study showing that alcohol use had virtualy no
effect on the use of safer sex? 

Not that this matters to them as long as they can use the threat of AIDS as
a weapon in the drug war. Its sad that they are wasting money on this
instead of ad's that might actually make a difference. I love the ad that
tells people to call for more information, do they really think that someone
who thinks they arn't at risk is going to call inorder to find out that they
are? 

>"TeenAIDS: The Latest HIV Fib" New Republic (08/10/92) Vol. 207, No. 7, 
>P. 17  (Fumento, Michael)

An appropriate name for this article..

>     Claims spread by the media that the AIDS epidemic will soon  affect 
>large numbers of young heterosexuals are outright  fallacies, writes 
>Michael Fumento, author of a book called The  Myth of Heterosexual AIDS.  
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
God would never strike down wholesum heterosexuals... Right....

>U.S. News + World Report cautioned in its May 4 issue that, "the AIDS 
>epidemic has taken an ominous  turn toward America's youth."  The New 
>York Times has reported,  "As schools and public health officials 
>increasingly realize,  teenagers are a high-risk group."  Fumento 
>asserts that although  these claims of teenage AIDS are only useful 
>politically, for  promoting sex education and the school-based teaching 
>of condom  use.  The Centers for Disease Control's actual figures show 
>that  in 1990 there were 170 teen AIDS cases reported in the U.S., and  
>that last year the number decreased to 160.  

There are lies damn lies and statistics. What he forgets to mention is
that people who catch HIV when 15 won't come down with AIDS as teenagers
they will get it when they are in college (or out working at a gas
station).

>The CDC also  reported that 
>among those aged 20-24, the numbers dropped from  1,626 in 1990 to 1,485 
>in 1991.  Teenagers comprise less than 1  percent of all AIDS cases, and 
>20-24 year-olds account for only 4 percent of the total. 

Again this is looking at infection rates 5-10 years ago...
I seem to remember studies showing infection rates of 1% or more among
teenagers.

>Young AIDS 
>patients are overwhelmingly  male and disproportionately black and 
>Hispanic.

Yet another reason why we shouldn't worry about AIDS after all none
of us are black or hispanic. As long as white male heterosexuals can
pretend they are immune who cares about everyone else....

>Male cases among 13-24 year olds outnumber female cases nine-
>to-one.  Moreover,  only 21 AIDS cases were reported last year in which 
>teenagers claimed  heterosexual contact as their risk factor, down from 
>37 the  previous year. 

But how many are HIV+?

And these same people will be complaining in 10 years that no one warned
them about the danger...
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