AIDS epidemic in Russia

[Mark W]

... in response to Don't agree, posted by BubbaGump on Feb 21, 2002

It is a fantasy to beliieve Russians don't understand sex educaation. My girl certainly does, and not by my beating it into her.  If Russians did not understand prevention they would suffer from a population explosion.  Instead, their population is decreasing.  As stated in Bubba's post, if a woman is easy she is risky.  This is not a Russian problem it is a world problem.  The russians understand it just as well as we do.

[Mark W]

... in response to Don't agree, posted by BubbaGump on Feb 21, 2002

It is a fantasy to beliieve Russians don't understand sex educaation. My girl certainly does, and not by my beating it into her.  If Russians did not understand prevention they would suffer from a population explosion.  Instead, their population is decreasing.  As stated in Bubba's post, if a woman is easy she is risky.  This is not a Russian problem it is a world problem.  The russians understand it just as well as we do.

[Mark W]

... in response to Don't agree, posted by BubbaGump on Feb 21, 2002

It is a fantasy to beliieve Russians don't understand sex educaation. My girl certainly does, and not by my beating it into her.  If Russians did not understand prevention they would suffer from a population explosion.  Instead, their population is decreasing.  As stated in Bubba's post, if a woman is easy she is risky.  This is not a Russian problem it is a world problem.  The russians understand it just as well as we do.

[BarryM]

... in response to Don't agree, posted by BubbaGump on Feb 21, 2002

I got these statistics from the NIH. I think they are from 1994 so they are old. I don't have a current web site for them.

Anal intercourse: 1 in 5 chance of transmitting HIV.
Coitus : 1 in 100 chance of transmitting HIV.

There are some other statistics concerning exposure to infected blood externally, exposure to infected semen orally, etc. but I don't remember those. Cunnilingus transmission rates are not measurable because there is no reliable data so far.

Transmission of HIV from a man to a woman with coitus is most likely from infected semem. Transmission of HIV from a woman to a man with coitus is more likely from menstrual discharge(blood), pus from sores, and blood from chafing. The  man's infection points are exposed sores, chafing wounds, and infection inside the urethra.

A condom will dramatically reduce the chances of infection from a woman to a man because normal vaginal fluids are unlikely to contain HIV. Unfortunately, a condom does not offer as high a protection to a woman because there is more likelihood of leakage of infected semem through various mishaps during coitus.

Some of this information may have changed since 1994 but most of it should be accurate.

-blm

[Zink]

... in response to Don't agree, posted by BubbaGump on Feb 21, 2002

I'm not sure if sex ed has really lead to more sex. People are just talking more openly about it now. When my parents were teens(late 40s and 50s) There was a lot of premarital and extramarital sex happening. The difference was people whispered about it. But the whispers never stopped anyone from doing it.

My mother has told me about those early sex ed classes. Any person who grew up around animals would know more about it than the teachers wanted to teach.

In some Canadian studies I read that the percentage of young people having premarital sex had actually gone down the last several decades. Sorry but I can't give you the exact quote on where I saw that.