[NYer]

Ping!

[Yaelle]

This must be that those women are not afraid of pregnancy so they are engaging in more sex. There doesn’t seem to be an actual cause in having hormones circulating vs HIV getting into the bloodstream.

[Viennacon]

Bill Gates is a eugenist

[Myrddin]

I suspect this is a case of "correlation is not causation". The "long lasting contraceptive" is likely increasing the frequency of promiscuous sexual activity and raising the likelihood of infection.

[ToastedHead]

Sucks for the Depo people that their brand name was used. This would also apply to any implant. I guess its just way easier to run around shooting people every 3 months over there.

[null and void]

Correlation is not causation.

In this case, I would suspect that women who sign up for a multi-year birth control implant are statistically much more likely to do so because of high numbers of sexual partners (read that as prostitutes frequently engaged in high risk behavior with multiple random and diseased partners) and are therefore much more likely to become infected in the course of working their chosen profession.

[informavoracious]

Yup, probably more sex. With more people.

[nvscanman]

Blatant misuse of statistics.
The more women use Depo Provera
the less the fear pregnancy and
the more often they will engage in
unprotected sex. It’s the increase
in THAT number that leads to the
increase in HIV. The drug itself has
NOTHING to do with the increased
infection rate. Pissant shyster
lawyers busy destroying another
drug company for profit and the
blackrobed pirates infesting court
benches are allowing it...since they
are still a member of the “club” of
lawyers. They take care of their own.

[JoeFromSidney]

Why the focus only on HIV? If promiscuity were the reason for the higher infection rate, one would expect higher infection rates of other STDs as well. If that turns out to be true, promiscuity is probably the reason.

[fso301]

The entire premise of birth control pills and morning after pills is that getting pregnant is worse than contracting an STD.

[oblomov]

The syringes may themselves be a vector of transmission. Needle-sharing drug users are one of the at-risk populations for HIV/AIDS.

[Nifster]

correlation is NOT causation

[Mrs. Don-o]

What the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to do to the women of Africa, Kathleen Sebelius and the HHS want to do to the women of America: push us, all of us in the fertile years --- roughly 12-52 --- into long-acting hormonal-derangement type contraception: not so much pills, but injections, patches, and inserts with timed-release endocrine disruptors.

Don't make the mistake of thinking the damned HHS mandate is all about condoms or even the Pill. By no means. It's about long-term impairment of female physiological function, targeting the whole female population. The marketing push is on.

The aim is to cut the birthrate in OUR country, which is already below replacement. Replacement fertility is 2.11 -- at last calculation, US fertility has dropped to 1.85 since 2008.

Even though they know that chronically jiggering the hormonal level seriously increases infection risk for AIDS and the new, "improved" cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea.

This is what they call "women's health."

For our daughters and granddaughters!

Unconscionable evil.

[bravo whiskey]

african women are more likely to get aids because they are living in africa