[VU4G10]

87% of HIV Patients in L.A. County from Mexico & Central America

http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/92/12/1958

 

[Dante3]

Other countries are using the USA as the dumping grounds for their misfits and criminals and surplus population. It is criminal that our hard earned money is used to cater to illegal aliens and criminals among legal immigrants.

[yoe]

Send that site to our silent Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona. Apparently his duties have been whittled down to something akin to a Shadow SG. Tommy Thompson is another, albeit less silent, who should be speaking out about AIDs and other diseases crossing our borders daily – illegally and not being stopped........

[Boot Hill]

VU4G10 claims:   "87% of HIV Patients in L.A. County [come] from Mexico & Central America."

VU4G10 cites this study:   "HIV Prevalence Among Foreign- and US-Born Clients of Public STD Clinics"

That's crazy, that study says no such thing!!!

All it says is that 87% of those HIV patients that were so poor that they could only access health care through a FREE CLINIC were immigrants from Central America or Mexico. Only the poorest of the poor access their health care through a free clinic, and in LA County, that means immigrants from Central America and Mexico. If most of the free clinics patients are immigrants from Mexico and Central America, why would you not expect most of their HIV patients to be from there also?

In fact, if you'd just read the very next sentence in the study you cited, you would have found that there is a nearly identical incidence of HIV among U.S. and foreign born persons:

"HIV prevalence was similar for US and foreign-born clients (1.8% and 1.6% respectively)."   [dual parentheses edited out for clarity]

I sure hope this is not an example of something you learned while listening to Michael Savage, aka, "one of the brainiest guys around".

--Boot Hill