Tuesday 6 December 2011

PLAYING GAMES WITH STATISTICS

We need be aware that people are playing games with the statistics of HIV infection. We are told that there is a drop in HIV infection across the world. It is about time people got it right after finding out the number of people infected and who have died. We find that more condoms are being used.

But a drop in infections must not hide the fact that millions are still being infected across the world. There is a drop in deaths because of the increasing availability of antiretroviral drugs. The virus is killed in the blood stream and unable to be transmitted by intercourse or breast feeding.

But the fact remains that within that drop in infections, the infections of gay men are rising by the year. They are the ones who have not learned the message yet. They are the ones who draw our sons into gay sex and make them vulnerable.

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