At the beginning of last year, the CDC reported approximately 362,827 persons in the United States living with AIDS. Of these, 42% were whites, 37% were blacks, 20% were Hispanics, less than 1% were Asians and Pacific Islanders, and less than 1% were American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Of the 282,250 men (13 years or older) living with AIDS, 57% were men who had homosexual sex, 24% were intravenous drug users, and 9% were exposed through heterosexual contact. Of the 76,696 adult and adolescent women with AIDS, 59% were exposed through heterosexual contact and 38% were exposed through intravenous drug use. And according to the CDC, at the end of 2001 there were 3,817 children living with AIDS in America.*
Also, note that in the national stats very few men are exposed heterosexually, but that far more women are. This is testimony to the fact that men deposit a blood product, semen, with the women, and that male exposure to a blood product in women is not impossible, but rare. (Hetero sex during menstruation?)
The high percentages of infection via intravenous drug use compared with the intense micro-study of NC students, suggests that many of the IV claimants were actually infected via male on male sex but were afraid to admit the same.
There is little follow-up in these self-reports, and generally, the word of the patient is accepted.
And I'll lay good odds that most of these 9% were lying.
AIDS (more correctly called GRIDS) is caused by homosexual behavior, or by associating with 'homosexuals' (as they are the reservoir of the disease)
Of the 76,696 adult and adolescent women with AIDS, 59% [have claimed that they] were exposed through heterosexual contact [such as repeated unprotected anal sex with IV drug users] and 38% were exposed through intravenous drug use.