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Researchers believe promiscuity combined with a higher incidence of venereal disease among Africans has accelerated the spread of the AIDS virus. Last November the nonprofit London-based Panos Institute reported that the rate of gonorrhea per 100,000 people was 10,000 in Kampala, Uganda, and 7,000 in Nairobi, Kenya, compared with about 975 in New York City and 310 in London. A study of 800 Nairobi prostitutes showed that 88% carried the AIDS virus and more than half had some sort of venereal disease. The women reportedly had an average of 1,000 clients a year...
...ominous news keeps emerging. Once figures have been fully reported, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta expects the number of deaths attributable to heterosexual transmission to have doubled in 1986. Right now, heterosexual infection -- among the sex partners of intravenous drug abusers, bisexuals or anyone who has the virus -- accounts for 3.8% of the 30,000 AIDS cases in the country, but that figure is expected to rise to 5.3% by 1991. Newly published studies on these male and female AIDS patients and their partners indicate that the disease is bidirectional, that is, passed on by both...
More disturbing is the potential scope of the disease, based on the rate of transmission and the varying incubation period, which some health authorities think may last as long as ten years. More than 1 million Americans are thought to be infected with the virus, and more than 90% of them do not know...
...even know there was a threat." After two frustrating years of incorrect diagnosis, the disease was finally identified, first as AIDS- related complex, then as AIDS. She does not know who gave her AIDS or whom she might have infected. "I am sure I have passed on the virus. I can't get in touch with him. If I could, I don't know whether to tell him and let him spend the rest of his life worrying, or not tell him and let him go and spread it further...
...Women who are sexually active must face some hard choices; playing out Erica Jong's little scenario is not easy. Says Judith Cohen, a University of California at San Francisco epidemiologist who for the past two years has been surveying some 500 women at high risk of catching the virus: "The sheer political and power issues involved in telling someone that you think using a condom would be a good idea are real difficult and complicated. They raise questions like, 'Are you telling me that you already have the virus?' or 'What else have you been doing that's socially...