"Persistent Myths About AIDS"

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"Persistent Myths About AIDS"

Washington Times (01/23/92), P. G3
Charen, Mona

Abstract: Behavioral control is the only way to prevent the further spread of HIV, writes columnist Mona Charen. More government funding is being spent on AIDS than cancer, and cancer is an unaviodable disease. AIDS activists want the public to believe that it is the worst catastrophe ever to occur to humans since the bubonic plague. But these activists also avoid the only ways that can effectively thwart the spread of the disease, such as teenage abstinence and adult monogamy, contract tracing and testing. Michael Fumento's book, "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," says that AIDS is not the monumental public health problem that homosexual groups have argued. He states that although the press thinks so, AIDS has not "broken out" into the heterosexual world. Only one half of 1 percent of all AIDS cases so far have been in whites infected through heterosexual contact. AIDS activists want us to think that we are all equally at risk of contracting HIV so that our prejudice against the high risk groups won't influence our readiness to fund research and treatment, concludes Charen.

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