AIDS a conspiracy against blacks?

Question

I read with great interest last week's New York Times article reporting that scientists have disovered that AIDS is more prevalent in black people because the hole in the penis of the average black man is larger than the hole in the penis of other races. The AIDS virus is peculiarly large, and fits better through the holes in black penises than others. That is why it is easier for black men to transmit that virus to their partners than it is for other men. To me, this scientific discovery lends credence to the theory (which I had always thought was nutty) that someone intentionally created AIDS to devastate the black community. Why hasn't the rest of the media picked up on this?

Answer 1

WHAT????
HIV is spread by having unprotected sex and sharing drug needles. While it is true that the virus is spreading fastest in young, black women it is because they are not insisting their partners uses condoms. The virus was not created to devastate the black community.

In the United States, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a health crisis for African Americans. In 2002, HIV/AIDS was among the top 3 causes of death for African American men aged 25–54 years and among the top 4 causes of death for African American women aged 25–54 years. It was the number 1 cause of death for African American women aged 25–34 years [1].

The primary mode of HIV transmission among African American women was heterosexual contact, followed by injection drug use [2].
Of the estimated 145 infants perinatally infected with HIV, 105 (73%) were African American (CDC, HIV/AIDS Reporting System, unpublished data, June 2005).
Of the estimated 18,849 people under the age of 25 whose diagnosis of HIV/AIDS was made during 2001–2004 in the 33 states with HIV reporting, 11,554 (61%) were African American [4].
Of the estimated 80,187 African Americans whose diagnosis of HIV/AIDS was made during 2001–2004 in the 33 states with HIV reporting, 49,704 (62%) were males, and 30,483 (38%) were females [4].
Race/ethnicity of persons (including children) with HIV/AIDS diagnosed during 2004
AIDS in 2004

African Americans accounted for 20,965 (49%) of the 42,514 estimated AIDS cases diagnosed in the United States (including US dependencies, possessions, and associated nations) [2].
The rate of AIDS diagnoses for African American adults and adolescents was 10 times the rate for whites and almost 3 times the rate for Hispanics. The rate of AIDS diagnoses for African American women was 23 times the rate for white women. The rate of AIDS diagnoses for African American men was 8 times the rate for white men [2].
The 178,233 African Americans living with AIDS in the United States accounted for 43% of all people in the United States living with AIDS [2].
Of the 48 US children (younger than 13 years of age) who had a new AIDS diagnosis, 29 were African American [2].
Since the beginning of the epidemic, African Americans have accounted for 379,278 (40%) of the estimated 944,306 AIDS cases diagnosed [2].
From the beginning of the epidemic through December 2004, an estimated 201,045 African Americans with AIDS died [2].
Of persons whose diagnosis of AIDS had been made since 1996, a smaller proportion of African Americans (64%) were alive after 9 years compared with American Indians and Alaska Natives (65%), Hispanics (72%), whites (74%), and Asians and Pacific Islanders (81%) [2].
Note. Based on data from 35 areas with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting.

Race/ethnicity of persons (including children) living with HIV/AIDS, 2004



Note. Based on data from 35 areas with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting.
RISK FACTORS AND BARRIERS TO PREVENTION
Race and ethnicity, by themselves, are not risk factors for HIV infection. Even though HIV testing rates are higher for African Americans than for other racial and ethnic groups [5], African Americans are more likely to face challenges associated with risk for HIV infection, including the following.

Sexual Risk Factors

African American women are most likely to be infected with HIV as a result of sex with men [2]. They may not be aware of their male partners’ possible risks for HIV infection, such as unprotected sex with multiple partners, bisexuality, or injection drug use [6,7]. In a study of HIV-infected persons, 34% of African American men who have sex with men (MSM) reported having had sex with women, even though only 6% of African American women reported having had sex with a bisexual man [8].

Lack of Awareness of HIV Serostatus

Not knowing one’s HIV serostatus is risky for African American men and their partners. In a recent study of MSM in 5 cities participating in CDC’s National HIV Behavioral Surveillance, 46% of the African Americans were HIV-positive, compared with 21% of the whites and 17% of the Hispanics. The study also showed that of the participating MSM who tested positive for HIV, 64% of the African American men, 18% of the Hispanic men, 11% of the white men, and 6% of multiracial/other men were unaware of their HIV infection [9].

Answer 2

If you think your funny, your not. The only reason why those who would write a story such as that have the wrong idealisms about the "conspiracy" and the african community.

The only conspiracy is that the goverment does not wish to admit they tested a foul vaccine on a third world country, that did not just contain the black population.

Yes, there is the african green monkey, but it's theory is that the brain of this monkey was eaten while still warm and freshly killed.

As for the penis and african americans, it has nothing to do with with anything as it does not just take sexual intercourse to get HIV-the virus that leads to full blown AIDS. You can get HIV by snorting cocaine, blood transfusions...many ways.

And just to prove a point, AIDS is the final stages of HIV...and I can tell you, I find it highly unlikely a person with full blown or end stage AIDS will have the gusto to even have sexual intercourse for HIV to transfer!!

Come on, you have GOT to be smarter than this!!!!

Now, I can also tell you on the subject of penises, that if a man is uncircumsized, the risk of catching an STD is higher simply because once the penis is retracted back into the foreskin, causing a nice warm environement to multiply. Again, it has nothing to do with the point of origin that your speaking of.

Now, the higher prevalence of African Americans verses any other population is simply due to stupidity and lack of self respect to oneself by not being careful-wearing condoms ect....

Answer 3

i am so mad right now you really believe that the white man is trying to wipe out the color peoples as you put it in your studies do you ever come across that 33 million people world wide have been infected with this terrible virus and scientist have found a new strain of the hiv virus stop Tuying to make a racist issue out of a disease that is infecting all members of the human race there a children dying in every hospital all over the world today from aids/hiv not just america not just hispanic/African american grow up a bit and get your head out of your a..

Answer 4

Til I see incontrovertible proof of this, I will continue to dismiss it as a racist conspiracy theory, as some idiot bigot's wishful thinking. It was first contracted from monkey's by humans who used them for food, and is mainly transmitted to humans by sexual intercourse or by contaminated needles or blood products.
It is very difficult to get rid of because it hides inside human white blood cells where meds and vaccines can't get at it easily. A vaccine may be the best solution, but so far none have proven effective.

Answer 5

You are a liar because the New York Times would never write an article about such nonsense.

It's more prevalent in black people because in Africa, people use rape as a weapon. If you really read the paper, you would have read about what goes on in those Africa countries.

Answer 6

That's a crock of Sh@t ! To say you are stupid would be an understatement.

Read what Rolling Stones mag wrote on Black people and Aids.

Answer 7

What the hell? You have got to be kidding, right? Aids is not a consiracy against any ethnic group.

Answer 8

aids came from africans who had sex with monkeys and apes, then it moved to the carribean area and all over the world, it wasnt created by anyone, it was a monkey disease, and we are very closely related so now its in the humans.

Answer 9

what a load of bull

Answer 10

sounds made up to me.

Answer 11

no one CAN intentionally cause this awful disease.