Recently there was a thread in gs exposing AIDS more threatening to Hindus than to Muslims.
Whereas I think that AIDS will remain more threatening to closed societies and cultures.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1415101,0005.htm
Muslim nations face AIDS reality
An AIDS crisis is threatening to overwhelm many predominantly Muslim countries but their leaders remain in a state of denial and are doing little to stem the deadly problem, a pioneering study says.
In one of the most comprehensive reports on AIDS covering the Muslim world, experts warned of serious repercussions if governments continued to sweep the problem under the carpet.
In a report released by the Seattle-based think tank, the National Bureau of Asian Research, they said “if leaders continue to ignore the problem, AIDS could debilitate or even destabilise some of these societies by killing large numbers of people in the 15 to 49-year age group.”
This would deprive the Muslim countries of some of their best, brightest, and most economically productive members, said Laura Kelley and Nicholas Eberstadt in the report.
A private infectious disease specialist, Kelly had previously undertaken AIDS research for the US National Intelligence Council as well as other diseases for the USAID, the principal foreign aid agency of the United States, while Eberstadt is a scholar at American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington-based think tank.
“An important take home message for all Muslim nations is that real behaviours on the streets are sometimes in marked contrast to the expected behaviours of good Muslims and that is something that leaders in these countries must deal with,” Kelly said.