| ‘AIDS is a homosexual disease’ . . .
in the early 1980's, AIDS was initially identified as a homosexual disease.
Today however heterosexual disease is the primary mode of HIV transmission.
‘You would have to drink a bucket of infected saliva to become infected
yourself’ . . . HIV is found in saliva, but in quantities too
small to infect someone.
‘Sex with a virgin can cure HIV’ . . . This myth is common in some
parts of Africa, and it is totally untrue. The myth has resulted in many rapes
of young girls and children by HIV+ men, who often infect their victims. Rape
won’t cure anything – and is a serious crime all around the world.
‘It only happens to gay men / black people / young people, etc’ . .
. This myth is false. So far almost every sex, race and category of people have
gotten documented cases of AIDS infection.
‘HIV can pass through latex ’ . . . Some people have been spreading
rumors that the virus is so small that it can pass through ‘holes’ in latex used
to make condoms. This is untrue – latex blocks HIV, as well as sperm –
preventing pregnancy, too. |
