Move over depression! Step aside heart attacks! There’s soon to be a new top killer up in here: the only, the odious, the most horrific virus in human history: AIDS! Please, hold your applause because, really, that’s some scary shit.
The World Health Organization prediction claims the HIV-born bug will take the top-slot by the year 2030.
If it was not for HIV, the proportion of the world’s deaths caused by infectious diseases would almost halve from over 15 million deaths a year in 2002 to eight million by 2030. But add on AIDS, and you get only a modest decline from 18 million today to 15 million in 2030. AIDS, by then, will cause 42% of all deaths due to infectious disease, compared with 15% today.
It’s worth noting, however, that AIDS earns that disgraceful honor by default. UK Gay News reports:
There will however, be one worse killer than AIDS, WHO warned: tobacco. Because it’s a cause of disease rather than a disease itself, cigarettes are not on the list, but they will cause eight million deaths a year by 2030, while AIDS will kill 6.3 million.
Yowzers. Those are some pretty frightening numbers. Don’t fret, however, because the report isn’t all doom and gloom. Western (healthy) women can add a few years to their life-expectancy, which has just been boosted to 85, while their male peers can expect to leave an average of 80 years. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, men and women both are expected to clock in 65 earthly years. Expect, of course, in Africa – men and women get the shaft, with a predicted life span of 55. Sorry, kids.
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Matty
I am so sick of HIV/AIDS. I am sick of stupid people not using a condom, and being proud of it. I am sick of young kids out there not caring, and thinking their so cool for their apathy. I really think ostracizing those that don’t practice safe sex might be a good way to go. Ridiculing them with shame, disgust, and insults might be somewhat effective. Being uneducated and unknowing in certain countries is one thing, but just being totally callous, or methed up, or to pretty to care is lame. I’m to fucking pretty to be around reckless assholes, who continue to spread this disease without any concern for others.
Neil Grieves
Even though I’m a bottom, I don’t worry about AIDS cause I always make sure my partner pulls out and finishes in my mouth. Then I’m on to the next guy.
It works like a charm!
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