The World Bank twitter feed has this comment: “250 people become newly infected for every 100 that go on AIDS treatment, the world desperately needs new prevention strategies.” E-Health MD notes that to prevent the spread of AIDS, people must use “protection” when having sex and “minimize” exposure to the disease by not sharing needles shooting up drugs. This has been the message for the past quarter century and clearly it hasn’t worked. If the AIDS community were really serious about preventing the spread of the disease, it would get strongly urge people to eliminate not minimize dangerous behaviours. They would behind campaigns to urge people to abstain from sex and be faithful to one’s partner and to get off illegal intravenous drugs.
