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October 20, 2005, 12:36 pm PDT

Oh boy...

Quote From: mlhaworth

Educate YOURSELF before speaking!  How do you think all these heterosexual women are contracting the AIDS virus?  Through being gay themselves or getting it from their spouse who has passed it on to them.  Where have you been? 

Do you honestly believe that being gay gives you AIDS? Please, please learn more about AIDS before you put yourself and others at risk. I did a quick google search and found this site http://www.avert.org/ I'm sure there are hundreds of other sites like it where you can find good information. 

  

AIDS is not a gay disease. In fact one of the lowest 'at risk' groups there are is the lesbian population.  

  

Maybe this help help... 

  

"HIV is a virus and is found in the blood and the sexual fluids of an infected person, and in the breast milk of an infected woman. HIV transmission occurs when sufficient of these fluids get inside someone else's body. There are various ways a person can become infected with HIV

Ways in which you can be infected with HIV :
  • Unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person
    Sexual intercourse without a condom is risky, because the virus, which is present in an infected person's sexual fluids, can pass directly into the body of their partner. This is true for unprotected vaginal and anal sex. Oral sex carries a lower risk, but again HIV transmission can occur here if a condom is not used - for example, if one partner has bleeding gums or an open cut, however small, in their mouth.
  • Contact with an infected person's blood
    If sufficient blood from an infected person enters the body of an uninfected person then it can pass on the virus.
  • From mother to child
    HIV can be transmitted from an infected woman to her baby during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding. There are special drugs that can greatly reduce the chances of this happening, but they are unavailable in much of the developing world.
  • Use of infected blood products
    Many people in the past have been infected with HIV by the use of blood transfusions and blood products which were contaminated with the virus - in hospitals, for example. In much of the world this is no longer a risk, as blood donations are routinely tested.
  • Injecting drugs
    People who use illegal injected drugs are also vulnerable to HIV infection. In many parts of the world, often because it is illegal to possess them, injecting equipment or works are shared. A tiny amount of blood can transmit HIV, and can be injected directly into the bloodstream with the drugs.
It is not possible to become infected with HIV through :
  • sharing crockery and cutlery
  • insect / animal bites
  • touching, hugging or shaking hands
  • eating food prepared by someone with HIV
  • toilet seats 
 
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October 20, 2005, 12:47 pm PDT

AIDS Stats

Quote From: mlhaworth

Educate YOURSELF before speaking!  How do you think all these heterosexual women are contracting the AIDS virus?  Through being gay themselves or getting it from their spouse who has passed it on to them.  Where have you been? 

Thirty-six percent of HIV positive women who had not yet developed AIDS in 1995 were infected through heterosexual contact; 26% were infected through injecting drug use. Current trends show that the number of women acquiring HIV through heterosexual contact has risen dramatically because it is easer for a man to transmit HIV to a woman than vice versa since a greater amount of semen has contact with the woman's genital tract than do vaginal secretions with a man's genital tract.
 


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