Posted by
Christopher on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:51:26 AM
Title refers to the movie Team America; a brilliant comedy and very relevant.
The latest (revised) total from the UN of people living with AIDS is 33 Million worldwide (
http://data.unaids.org/pub/EPISlides/2007/2007_epiupdate_en.pdf ). The population of the world is 6.6 Billion. That is 0.5% (1 out of 200 people). In North America/Western and Central Europe (those dolts at the UN will not get any more specific than that) there are about 1.3 Million people living with AIDS. The population of these regions is about 600 Million total. That is 0.2% (1 out of 500 people).
To put it in perspective, the odds of a woman in America getting breast cancer based on a 90 year life span is 12.5% (1 out of 8), and the odds for prostate cancer in American men is 16.5 % (1 out of 6). The kicker is, AIDS is 100% PREVENTABLE. Meaning that those percentages for AIDS are basically irrelevant. If nobody had sex with an infected person or shared drug needles with one, AIDS would DISAPPEAR FOREVER. Heck, using condoms alone would probably reduce it by 90%. People would rather have magic drugs to cure it than to change their behavior? God forbid…