The AIDS epidemic

I blogged on Wednesday about "scare mongerring" scientists and included this passage "One final point on the AIDS numbers; it is reported that the number of people living with HIV in Europe (including parts of Asia) has gone up from 1.25m in 2001 to about 2.4m now. Why might this be? Could it be anything to do with mass immigration from Africa? Just like the reappearance of TB in the UK, immigrations has been a prime driver and this government's almost total ending of border controls is to blame."


A contributor to Biased-BBC a "pounce" makes some interesting points about the BBC's biased reporting of this issue-

"pounce:
The BBC, politically correct reporting, Aids and half the bloody story.

Sex infections continue to rise
The sexual health of young UK adults worsened in 2006 despite a concerted public health effort to turn it around, figures show. In 2006, a total of 376,508 new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were diagnosed - up 2.2% on 2005, the Health Protection Agency found. Young people aged 16-24 made up the bulk of cases of some of the most common STIs, including chlamydia. The HPA also warned of a continuing HIV and STI epidemic in gay men.
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An estimated 73,000 adults are now living with HIV in the UK. A third of the people in Britain with HIV, don't know they have the virus. HIV transmission seems to be a particular problem among gay men - the HPA anticipates that there will have been just over 2,700 new diagnoses of HIV infection among this population in 2006.
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And here is what the Health Protection Agency (HPA) from which the BBC quotes in its report actually said;
Almost half of the estimated 7,800 HIV diagnoses in 2006were in black Africans and 3% were in black Caribbeans. An estimated 4.0% of the black African population of England, Wales and Northern Ireland (E, W & NI) were living with diagnosed HIV infection, as were 0.4% of the black Caribbean population, compared with 0.08% of the white population…HIV prevalence in UK-born pregnant women giving birth in 2006 was highest (0.47%) in those with male partners born in the Caribbean or Central America, and was0.33% in those with male partners born in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Strange how the BBC paints a picture of a white British youth problem when it comes to Aids and not immigration.

The BBC, politically correct reporting, Aids and half the bloody story.
pounce | 23.11.07 - 6:41 pm |"