Hi bro WeiSiaoBao:
Why so many people being infected every day?
You mean globally? That's a question of statistics—the larger the population, the larger the community of infected.
Also, that's a question of risk factors—and risks do increase in cases where there is frequent sexual intercourse. Yes, frequency also plays a part in increasing risks—if not just for its part in probability computations, but also because the more frequently, say a woman has vaginal sex, the more likely she will have more scarring, scratches or microabrasions on her vaginal walls, that have less time to heal before the next sexual encounter...
Also, there are also places where HIV 1 or HIV 2 is rampant—in great part because of the lack of condom use (due to whatever reason). And another thing, if you remember the SARS infection (and contact tracing) chart in the papers last year, think of a HIV 1/2 chart that way—except it's way, way much larger—and what do you learn from that? Number one lesson—it's a geometric progression, the numbers grow faster when the numbers you start out with are huge.
Sad, but that's the way contagion goes. <sigh>
—perry
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Originally Posted by WeiSiaoBao
Thanks for the info bro Big Sexy. Just 1 question, when the doctor said "The risk of vaginal intercourse without protection may vary between 0.1 to 0.01%. ..." Does he mean that the female is an AIDS carrier and the chances of infection despite unprotected intercourse is less than 1%? Then why are there still so many people being infected everyday?
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