From her book: "All of Africa is poor. But not all of Africa has very high rates of HIV. HIV reaches very high levels only in areas where there are lots of sim

From her book: "All of Africa is poor. But not all of Africa has very high rates of HIV. HIV reaches very high levels only in areas where there are lots of simultaneous sexual partnerships, lots of untreated STIs and lots of uncircumcised men". Here is the geographic distribution of male circumcision http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Global_Map_of_Male_Circumcision_Prevalence_at_Country_Level.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Global_Ma... 80-100% in most of West Africa. Western countries such as Sweden have had education on the real causes of HIV transmission for many years, and encourage use of condoms, discourage sharing needles. Brazil has had a fine response to HIV, including refusing to sign the US's 'loyalty oath' to receive PEPFAR money. This requires the recipient country to sign a statement saying they oppose prostitution. Brazil chose instead to regulate it, and lost $US50million in funding. The author is an epidemiologist, who has lived in Kenya and Indonesia, working with gays, prostitutes and drug users (as well as 'waria' for whom we don't even have a word). She has been an author of many of the reports of UNAIDS itself. To dismiss the article as 'just wrong' appears misguided. I'd really recommend you read her book- it's very readable.