Read the actual survey: http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/JC1700_Epi_Update_2009_en.pdf http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/JC1700_Epi_Update_200... It

Read the actual survey: http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/JC1700_Epi_Update_2009_en.pdf http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/JC1700_Epi_Update_200... It contains some very interesting information: * AIDS has basically stabilized world wide. The number of new infections is only slightly higher than the number of deaths * AIDS does not seem related to war or conflict zones in Africa. The warzones have low HIV prevalence and the most proposperous countries have high HIV * AIDS seems to be a problem in Southern Africa and not over the entire continent * Divorced people seem the most likely to have HIV A quote: Adult HIV prevalence in Côte d’Ivoire (3.7%) is more than twice as high as in Liberia (1.7%) or Guinea (1.6%), even though these West African countries share national borders (UNAIDS, 2008). Within the relatively small nation of Benin, a more than 12-fold variation in HIV prevalence among pregnant women (ranging from 0.4% to 3.8%) has been documented among the country’s depart- ments * HIV peaked in the mid 1990s. We are now in a decline period. The epidemic is not getting worse - it's getting better * There is no significant correlation between prevalence of sexual concurrency and HIV prevalence at the country or community level * Clinical trials have confirmed the results from observational epidemiology that male circumcision reduces transmission of HIV among men For sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, median reported HIV prevalence among sex workers is 19% In a study in Mombasa, Kenya, 43.0% of men who have sex only with other men tested HIV-positive I'll read the entire article later and write up anything interesting I find. But in general, the facts about AIDS do not really sync with the stereotypes.