conceive a baby where the man was HIV-positive. Their findings are in line with infection rates of 1 per
1000 acts of unprotected sex among stable heterosexual couples. According to this published research, it
would take an HIV-infected heterosexual who has sexual intercourse 2-3 times a week about seven years
to infect another person with HIV! This practically means that it would take the HIV-infected males of 1
million couples 2,739 years of daily unprotected sex to infect all female partners. In the developing world,
unprotected sex among heterosexuals can, therefore, not be held responsible for the high number of
people who test HIV positive (even if HIV tests were 100 percent reliable, which they are not).
However, the situation is different with regard to infected pregnant women. A baby is directly and
constantly exposed to the mother’s blood for a period of 9 months. During this period the virus has a 50
percent chance of being passed on to the baby. Retroviruses survive when they reach a new host
prenatally (passed from mother to child). This way of passing on a virus is at least 500 times more
efficient than through sexual transmission. (Blood transfusion is another obvious way of contracting the
virus.)
In contrast to the situation in wealthy nations, HIV in Third World countries is equally distributed
between both sexes, which means, it must have been passed on from mother to child for many centuries.
Had HIV been a deadly killer virus, the babies of infected mothers would have obviously been born
deformed, miscarried, or dead because newly born babies have not yet developed adequate immunity to
defend themselves against a killer virus. Even if they somehow managed to survive, they could only last
for a maximum of two years – the latency period given to infected babies before developing AIDS. The
spreading of the virus would have stopped automatically through the destruction of all new babies that
were infected by their mothers.
Due to the low rates of homosexuality in developing countries, the prenatal route of transmission has
been their only efficient way (50 percent chance) to pass on HIV to the new generations. Grown female
children who become mothers would again have a 50 percent chance of passing the virus to their children.
Therefore, in Africa alone, HIV must have been around for many generations before it was able to infect
as many as 6-8 million people. The latest argument that the increased condom use in some African nations
helped to slow the rate of infection is hardly convincing since the main route of HIV infection in Africa is
from mother to child.
Who Gets Aids?
The situation is much different in the industrialized world where HIV is mostly transmitted through
different routes. The most susceptible groups are very active homosexuals, needle sharing heroin addicts,
and hemophiliacs who receive transfusions. They represent the main and easiest routes through which
disease-causing microbes can be passed on to others who share one common risk factor: immune
deficiency. In other words, the groups in society where HIV is commonly present amongst their members
are also the groups with the biggest health risks and, therefore, more likely to produce AIDS symptoms.
Still, HIV’s most concentrated occurrence among health risk groups cannot be blamed for causing AIDS
diseases, just as elevated cholesterol levels cannot be held responsible for causing heart disease. These are
mere correlations. Another problem is that gay men, drug users, and hemophiliacs who are exposed to
semen, drugs, blood transfusions, hepatitis, the Epstein Barr virus, and many other diseases or factors
known to cause biological false positives in HIV tests, represent the most unreliable groups in society to
demonstrate real presence of HIV.
As prophesied 13 years ago, AIDS has invaded the heterosexual community, or so it appears. Since
cervical cancer and other female diseases have more recently been renamed AIDS diseases, AIDS seems
to have affected the female population. However, most AIDS patients are still male. Anything and