“A quarter of a century after the outbreak of AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared. In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organizations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO’s department of HIV/AIDS said there will be no generalised epidemic of AIDS in the heterosexual population outside Africa.” [Independent via JMG]
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Byron Beck
is his name really Kevin de Cock. How appropriate.
Qjersey
…And since their isn’t an HIV epidemic among heteros outside of Africa (which is wrong), i’m sure the homo haters in the US congress will cut prevention programs for gay men even more than they already have.
hell's kitchen guy
Gee, “only” 40 million infected so far worldwide. No pandemic, no problem!