Tuesday, April 12, 2005

The Mystery of the HIV Spike

Many have written on this and I shall add my thoughts to it. Through the bright reasoning of some unnamed statistician working feverishly in the ivory towers of some government building in this red dot city, it was declared that gays were the cause of the recent spike in HIV cases. Although the data screamed otherwise - heterosexual contact was behind 2/3 of the cases! And in the same breath, it was also announced that gay parties, attended by many in the region, were the root cause of it.
The city's civil servants need to do better than this - instead of propagating widely and baselessly discrimination against this minority group, they need to get off their high horse (or ass?) and get to work on the real problem.
Meanwhile, the weekend migration of men for cheap nights of fornicatory fun in the pleasure islands off the southern coast continues unabated.
And perhaps, the same civil servants should not baulk at education on HIV and condom use. There needs to be more of these. Seems like they find it morally offensive to conduct such useful education.

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