So says Dr. Kevin De Cock, the head of the World Health Organization's department of HIV/Aids.
(Our) Understanding of the threat posed by the virus had changed, said Kevin De Cock, who has spent most of his career leading the battle against the disease.
Rather than being a risk to populations anywhere, the threat in developed countries is largely confined to gay men, drug addicts and prostitutes and their clients.
Gee. Kinda like what those evil, judgmental, and intolerant, bible thumping conservatives have been saying for decades.
The concession comes just months after the United Nations admitted overstating the threat of Aids, slashing estimates of the number of people with HIV worldwide from nearly 40million to 33million.
Still, it's way too many people to be dying from something which can be easily prevented.
Speaking a quarter of a century after the term Aids was coined, Dr De Cock said large-scale heterosexual spread was unlikely to occur anywhere outside sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 11 million children have been orphaned by the disease.
He said: 'It is very unlikely there will be a heterosexual epidemic in other countries.
Dr De Cock, also admitted there were 'elements of truth' in criticism that the vast sums of money being spent on mass education campaigns would be better targeted at high-risk groups.
Like gay men, drug addicts and prostitutes and their clients?
Sounds like common sense to me.
TY JR
