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Friday, July 19, 2002
 
AIDS in the UK

Via Andrew Sullivan, here is a good story about how the British government has been inflating statistics concerning HIV infection rates among heterosexual populations. We've known all along that if you aren't having sex with gay men or shooting drugs with used needles or having sex with Africans then your risk of acquiring HIV is extremely low. Propaganda, err state health policy, would have you believe that HIV is something that you get from not having sex with a condom - that it has no relation to with whom you choose to copulate. I would be interested to see someone take on the official US infection rates to see if similar overstatements are as prevalent. I'm sure they are.