'Despite education campaigns and increasing collective knowledge of the causes and effects of HIV, it continues to spread, and in Ontario the rise is especially alarming.
And what are the supposed causes attributed to this rise?
'A chief cause, he believes, is that many gay men are experiencing "safe-sex fatigue," and they're simply tired of being bombarded with the safe-sex message.
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'Another factor is what Remis calls "treatment optimism." He believes that with the development of anti-viral agents that reduce the symptoms of HIV, people have begun to look at HIV as a readily treatable disease, and are less cautious as a result.
So basically the cause is too much condom talk, and not enough scaring the living daylights out of people about HIV. And how do we solve this little problem?
'Remis said he expects the problem to continue to grow, and said it will only be slowed by increasing research and education dramatically. Ontario's problem, he said, could be a microcosm of what can be expected to occur across the nation.'
In other words the cure is more condom talk, and more scaring the living daylights out of people.
You'd think that people would learn from trial and error in the medical community. First off, we should look at the successes out there in fighting AIDS. Namely we should look at Uganda. How did they deal with AIDS? Abstinence. They didn't do anything coersive or forcefully. They just promoted abstinence. To this day they have the lowest AIDS rates in Africa. And to this day radical leftist groups attack the country as "barbarian hordes" for not pursuing our North American "enlightened" AIDS fighting strategy. Namely, condoms, comdoms, and more condoms. Condoms being thrown out of airplanes. Condoms for all, and condoms for any.
If Ontario is a gauge on which to base the effectiveness of our AIDS strategy, I'd rather stick with the Uganda model quite frankly.
h/t to a whole bunch of people.
Yes, but that assumes that since more people in the US believe in abstinence, that abstinence is being promoted more.
ReplyDeleteAlso those that practice abstinence may be in greater numbers, but those that need to practice it may not be practicing it - and that's the difference.
Also, I know enough from politics, that I can get an academic study that proves that the sky is green if I really wanted to. The bias of scientific community on this issue is particularly suffocating.
You haven't addressed UGANDA. Why is it then in your opinion that they have the lowest rates of AIDS in Africa? How do explain it otherwise?
The fact remains they are the only jurisdiction that has even tried stressing abstinence as a form of AIDS prevention. And AIDS rates have dropped as a result.
That may not be a "peer-reviewed academic study" but it is results. And for me results are more important that a piece of paper that says "peer-reviewed."
Also how can people practicing abstinence produce more pregnancies? Common sense would dictate otherwise.
Where else have results like UGANDA been shown? That was the whole point of this post. Everyone ignores the only country that HAS ACTUALLY SHOWN RESULTS.