Study: Role of Homosexual Behavior Ignored in African AIDS Problem
AIDS prevention poster in Chad, Africa (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Homosexual activists and apologists have long pointed to Africa every time the risks of homosexual behavior–especially AIDS transmission–are pointed out.
For example, data from government agencies like the Massachussetts Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have for years indicated that AIDS transmission in the United States is overwhelmingly and disproportionately transmitted homosexually. While homosexuals make up 2.9% of the population, 72% of male AIDS cases are associated with homosexual behavior.
So in order to avoid the compelling case for moral and healthy behavior, homosexual activists and apologists eagerly latch onto anything which can divert attention from these damning statistics. Researchers claim that, directly the opposite of the United States, most AIDS transmission cases in Africa are heterosexual, and there has been relatively little dispute of this contention.
In 2003 a study stated that transmission in medical settings (including dirty needles) was the biggest source of AIDS transmission, followed by anal sex, both heterosexual and homosexual, and vaginal transfer third.
Some years ago, we began to hear that in addition to prostitution and cases of homosexual activity among married men, many AIDS cases in Africa may not be AIDS cases at all. Some researchers claim that when various illnesses cannot be clearly identified in Africa (through inadequate or lack of reliable testing methods) they are often labeled AIDS by default.
But now comes a report the medical journal The Lancet which contends the role of homosexual behavior in the spread of AIDS in Africa has been virtually ignored. The report finds that “HIV prevalence among African MSM is generally considerably higher than among adult men in the general population” and in some African countries is 10x higher for homosexual men than the general male population.
These findings have been reported in the New York Times, BBC, LifeSiteNews and more.
It remains true that if people would exercise restraint and sexual responsibility, confining sexual relations to their spouse, there would be few new cases of AIDS transmission outside of substandard medical conditions. Even those would diminish as the pool of infected patients came down.
It is a simple fact of life that immoral choices usually carry with them “real-world” consequences. We ignore this truth to our very real peril, and homosexual men are the most vulnerable.
Is sexual satisfaction really worth your life?
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