AIDS Could Double in 5 Years, UN Warns

[Guest BKKvisitor]

MANILA, Philippines -- The number of people in Asia infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS could more than double to 20 million over the next five years without a better government response and more funding, officials warned Friday.

 

"At the current level of inadequate response, it is expected this number will rise to about 20 million in the next five years," said the independent Commission on Aids in Asia that is funded by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS or UNAIDS.

 

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/internationa...0in015000c.html

[Guest slackersam]

Is that mostly among native straight guys who go to cheap female hookers and don't use condoms?

 

I suspect that us and our boys won't have much of a problem since we've been trained since our teens to use condoms even with non-sex workers.

[Guest fountainhall]

Anyone can state that "the number of people in Asia infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS could more than double to 20 million over the next five years without a better government response and more funding". Of far more consequence, I believe, would be the addition of the words "and greater condom use." I wonder if it is any coincidence that this meeting was held in The Philippines, the most Catholic anti-condom-use country in the region.

 

[Guest slackersam]

They have to get rid of their cultural taboos against using condoms with prostitutes

[Guest lvdkeyes]

They have to get rid of their cultural taboos against using condoms with prostitutes

 

This cultural taboo is really based on a Catholic taboo.

[Guest slackersam]

I think straight people, in general, are less likely to use condoms than we are.