Aren't gay comunities responsable for spreading HIV/AIDS? (of course that includes some doctors)?

Answer 1

First of all, what exactly do you mean by "of course that includes some doctors?"

Second - As much as I hate to say this since it will give fodder to the racists out there (and frankly, you sound like you might be one by the way you phrased your question), HIV is a virus that was believed to originate in Africa. It initially spread along trucking routes by HETEROsexual men who made use of the illegal sex trade while away from their wives. Since then, in Africa, it has spread to whole communities. Initially by those same men, who slept with prostitutes and then slept with their wives.

Initially, in the U.S., HIV was spread largely through the more promiscuous members of the homosexual community. For that reason, the disease caused by HIV was first called GRID - Gay Related ImmunoDeficiency - totally ignoring the wildfire spread of HIV through the continent of Africa in both male and female heterosexuals.

Now, heterosexuals - particularly young females are the most rapidly growing group of HIV infected individuals.

It is common for people to try to blame the homosexual community for "spreading" HIV, but the fact is that every race, sexual orientation, religious belief system, and gender has individuals who are in part responsible.

------In response to Lawman :
You are, unfortunately, completely incorrect in most of what you just wrote.

Remember Elizabeth Glazier (sp?) or Ryan White? Both straight indivduals, one married, who contracted AIDS.

You are correct in ONE thing - HIV has never left the original risk groups, and they include - people exposed to contaminated blood products, people who participate in risky sexual behavior - i.e. sex without a condom, and people who use intravenous drugs. Then there are always the unlucky few who get accidentally stuck by a dirty needle, or who catch if from a spouse who has engaged in the high risk behavior mentioned above.

As a physician who has spent considerable time in Africa treating women with AIDS, I can tell you that I did indeed use both the ELISA and the Westernblot tests - we have money for that - what we don't have money for is to treat a bunch of HIV negative people with anti-HIV medications for a lifetime!

Approximately 60% of my patients were HIV positive. While they all could have been lying about their sexual orientation, I highly doubt that the rate of homosexuality in women in southern Africa is that high.

Without trying to be inflammatory - I believe that you are endangering lives with your reponse. You use appropriate words like ELISA, which makes you sound intelligent and trustworthy to your reader. Unfortunately, you are basically telling people that they won't get HIV if they're straight, and we both know that isn't true. I can only speculate on your reasons for writing what you've written, but I would suspect you have some bias against the gay community. Regardless, its a dangerous lie you are spreading.

Answer 2

They lack the education and understanding about the disease. They think AIDS and automatically think about gay men. Even though, straight people can get aids, drug users get aids, blood transfusions given to others during the first cases of AIDS, as we know Africa is having a major problem with aids, and it's not because they are all gay, it's because they lack the education about safe sex or because of religious views. Yes! AIDS did start out in monkeys i have been told it was probably caused by a person trialing a vaccine or that somebody killed an infected monkey and the blood got into the killers bloodstream through a wound. but i have been told throughout my life by teachers etc that AIDS was NOT caused by sex between human and monkey. I thought i'd add a link so anyone interested can look it up.

Answer 3

Actually, gay communities have done more to fight HIV/AIDS than most heterosexual communities have.

Individuals (gay and straight alike) are responsible for spreading HIV/AIDS, and society in general is responsible for marginalizing gay people in such a way that they don't feel like it's worth it to protect themselves and others from this disease.

Answer 4

AIDS has never left the original risk groups. Other than some anecdotal evidence that the media hypes up, nondrug using straight people never get it.

On the West Coast (most San Fran) AIDS correlates nearly 100% to crystal meth usage. Drug use is huge in the gay AIDS community.

By the way, the people in Africa routinely suffer from civil war, famine, dirty water and lack of medical care. The statistics regarding AIDS in Africa are extrapolations of statistics from antenatal (pregnancy) clinics, instead of registered/confirmed cases of AIDS. Pregnancy cause false positives with the ELISA test which is most commonly used test in Africa, plus it is never confirmed with a Western Blot test like in the USA or Europe. Do you think that they spend 100 dollars on AIDS testing when they dont have 100 dollar to feed 5 people for a year. AIDS in Africa is like the boogy man. Something to talk about, but because we live in USA, we never are going to confirm it in Africa ourselves.

Answer 5

Hmm . . let's take a look at the tremendous number of AIDS cases in South Africa . . . 98% HETEROSEXUALS Just because you're gay doesn't mean you are responsible .... more heterosexual people in the world have AIDS than homosexuals, because *big suprise* there's more heterosexuals ... educate yourself on some world news before asking offensive questions, hon

Answer 6

I am the main spread of HIV i think i've given more people HIV then had sex with