HIV in Saudi Arabia

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GMCarter - 18 Oct 2004 13:06 GMT

Alrajhi AA, Halim MA, Al-Abdely HM. Mode of transmission of HIV-1 in
Saudi Arabia. AIDS. 2004 Jul 2;18(10):1478-1480.

Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospitaltal and
Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The mode of HIV-1 transmission was determined for 410 Saudi patients.
Heterosexual transmission occurred in 189 patients (46%), blood
product transfusion in 107 (26%), and perinatal transmission in 47
(12%). Men who have sex with men and injection drug users represented
5% and 2%,respectively. Sixty-three of 65 heterosexually infected
women acquired HIV-1 from their spouses, whereas 111 of 124
heterosexually infected men acquired the virus from commercial sex
workers. Heterosexual transmission is the main mode in Saudi patients.

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PaulKing - 18 Oct 2004 22:51 GMT

As you get death for homosexual activity, I am not surprised to see high
'heterosexual' figures.

They also have an anti sex agenda, second to none.

Nonsense....complete nonsense.

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Marshall Applewhite - 19 Oct 2004 00:26 GMT

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote...

> The mode of HIV-1 transmission was determined for 410 Saudi patients.
> Heterosexual transmission occurred in 189 patients (46%), blood
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> heterosexually infected men acquired the virus from commercial sex
> workers. Heterosexual transmission is the main mode in Saudi patients.

Rather, "heterosexual transmission" was the mode determined for the sample
of the 410 Saudi patients they studied (I'm assuming there are far more
than 410 people in Saudi Arabia with HIV). Also remember that Saudi
Arabia is an ultra-repressive, totalitarian, Islamic theocracy where it
is not only illegal to engage in extramarital sex - not to mention
HOMOSEXUAL sex - but that the penalty for either is DEATH. Surely you
can't believe that the certainty of being BEHEADED if the extramarital
same-sex encounter that led to HIV infection were confessed had no
influence on their answers. Similarly, the penalty for drug use - IV
or other - is also DEATH. Naturally, that category also seems a bit low.
Naturally, the categories where Saudi authorities could not possibly
behead the victims would be blood transfusion (not the victim's fault),
mother-to-child transmission (not the victim's fault), and female
spouses who contracted it from their husbands (not the victim's fault).
As you can see, those three categories make up the bulk of the Saudi
infections, while the other categories where victims run the risk of
being executed for their sins are suspiciously low.

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