Haunted By HIV’s Origins

Most importanly this story demonstrates that as long as their is one person with HIV the world is threatened. We must remain vigilant in our prevention methods and fund research on a cure and/or a vaccine. HIV will always spread.

I would swear that I read at least 10 years ago that HIV came here via Haiti - is this really new information? In any event, it's too bad that we all, regardless of nationality, sexual orientation, etc., can't just look at and learn from the evidence, instead of having to spin it in order to vilify or defend. Guess it's just human nature...

I would assume the Haitians are as insulted as the homosexuals in America were/are, when they were told AIDS is "punishment" from God, and that they deserved to get the "gay cancer". And I can't wait for the continued squealing about gay sex in bathhouses as the cause of AIDS. Think about this, heteros of America: Do you think that encouraging gays, with both the carrot and the stick, to mainstream themselves, come out of their closets, and settle down would have minimized or accelerated the wave of death and suffering that is AIDS in America? Can't have that same sex marriage thing...since heteros have the lock on successful marriages...
Of course, around the rest of the world the tendency is for AIDS to be a hetero disease, which is ok to talk about, provide cheap, CHEAP meds for, etc. But, even then...let's talk abstience, etc. etc. rather than acknowledge that humans are sexually driven creatures, and instead of treating sex as dirty, sinful, immoral...treat the soul so it doesn't feel the need to seek sex in such voluminous amounts.
Can't cure that with a pill tho, can you?
Ultimately, don't we need to understand how this disease blew up into the massive epidemic it did, not just from a sexual ecology prospective, but also from the epidemilogical? Regardless of "who started it first"?