Re: Bush’s AIDS relief promises and the reality…
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The dirty little secret among epidemiologists is that we may have reached a point of no return. The core issue is that unless people quit having unprotected sex frequently with multiple partners, that AIDS may well be uncontrollable. Many epidemeologists already think we are at this point, but this is such a hot potato politically that no one wants to acknowledge it. Take South Africa:
http://www.africancrisis.org/Photo.asp?Subject=HIV
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She above graph shows the steady infection of up to 22 million in a population of 44 million. Most epidemiologist believe that society will collapse before your get to a 50% infection rate. If the infection rate cannot be slowed down, the exponential rise will be unstoppable. barring a miracle, a cure or a vaccine, nothing is working EXCEPT in countries that have successfully implemented strong preventive programs. This is not politics, it is cold blooded science.