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Title: WHO: There is no AIDS Pandemic
Post by: Matty the Damned on June 10, 2008, 04:26:01 pm
From the Times of India:

NEW DELHI: A quarter of a century after AIDS first appeared, the World Health Organisation has for the first time said the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic outside Africa might have passed.

According to Dr Kevin de Cock, one of the world's leading epidemiologists and head of the organisation's HIV/ AIDS department, there has been a shift in the understanding of the risks posed by the virus.

HIV was earlier regarded as a risk to populations everywhere, irrespective of the percentages that practised unsafe sexual behaviour. But experts now believe that outside of sub-Saharan Africa, the disease is largely confined to high-risk groups like men having sex with men, sex workers and their clients.


(source) (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Threat_of_global_AIDS_epidemic_over_says_WHO/articleshow/msid-3115367,curpg-1.cms)

MtD
Title: Re: WHO: There is no AIDS Pandemic
Post by: Miss Philicia on June 10, 2008, 04:33:20 pm
FAIL (http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=21339.msg273307#msg273307)
Title: Re: WHO: There is no AIDS Pandemic
Post by: Matty the Damned on June 10, 2008, 04:38:46 pm
Dammit. Asshatted.

I shall report to millinery without delay. What say you Philodendron? Something with a broad floppy brim and a feather at a jaunty angle?

In my defence I still got to quote the Time of India as a source. That's gotta be a first.

MtD
Title: Re: WHO: There is no AIDS Pandemic
Post by: Miss Philicia on June 10, 2008, 04:42:58 pm
I was actually shaken that you committed so grievous a forum sin -- quite unlike you frankly.

There's a funnier element to the whole thing to, which I'm sure didn't escape you.
Title: Re: WHO: There is no AIDS Pandemic
Post by: Matty the Damned on June 10, 2008, 04:48:02 pm
It's 6:30 in morning down here doll. Many and various things escape me. :)

MtD
Title: Re: WHO: There is no AIDS Pandemic
Post by: anniebc on June 10, 2008, 05:11:06 pm
LOL...fear not Matty you have come up with (apart from this thread) more "firsts" than anyone I know... ;)

So tell me, the De-Stig campaign I was just involved with, which by the way was all about "Look beyond the sterotype" was all for nothing then?...~sigh~

Hugs
Jan :-*