AIDS Not a Pandemic Threat to Heterosexuals

Haven't we known this all along?

A quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (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 organisations 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.

Dr De Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading the battle against the disease, said understanding of the threat posed by the virus had changed. Whereas once it was seen as a risk to populations everywhere, it was now recognised that, outside sub-Saharan Africa, it was confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients.

There were some in the early days of AIDS who I'm sure were secretly wishing for a significant spread into the heterosexual community in the hopes that the type of lifestyles lived by many gay males wouldn't get the blame for the spread of the disease. It didn't happen. If you were a heterosexual, non-IV drug user, weren't receiving blood transfusions or blood products, and were abstinent or faithful to one partner (with a similar lifestyle), your chances of being infected with the AIDS virus was practically zero. Nothing about that has changed in 25 years.