Johnarizona wrote:
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Why? because they felt they were underpaid just like if you told your accountant you were going to pay him half his rate this year because thats all you have, he will grimace and smile at you and take it.. if he has the time and do a half asssed job for you because he resents the chop.
Interesting...possible. Likely?
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What about Honduras? Waynerd?
According to this report from WIT there is an unusually high AIDS prevalence there..... 7 times the Risk.
"ASIA
In Asia, national HIV prevalence is highest in South-East Asia, with wide variation in epidemic trends between different countries. While the epidemics in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand all show declines in HIV prevalence, those in Indonesia (especially in the Papua province) and Viet Nam are growing. Although the proportion of people living with HIV in India is lower than previously estimated, its epidemic continues to affect large numbers of people. Overall in Asia, an estimated 4.9 million [3.7 million–6.7 million] people were living with HIV in 2007, including the 440 000 [210,000–1.0 million] people who became newly infected in the past year. Approximately 300,000 [250,000–470,000] died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2007.
The number of new annual HIV infections in Thailand continues to decline, although the decline in HIV prevalence has been slowing in recent years as more people are receiving anti-retroviral therapy.
The patterns of HIV transmission in Thailand have changed over time, with the virus spreading increasingly to persons considered to be at lower risk. More than four in 10 (43%) new infections in 2005 were among women, the majority of whom probably acquired HIV from husbands or partners who had been infected either during unsafe paid sex or through injecting drug use (WHO, 2007).
Despite the overall achievements in reversing the HIV epidemic in Thailand, prevalence among injecting drug users has remained high over the past 15 years, ranging between 30% and 50% (WHO, 2007). Similarly, recent studies show increasing HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (e.g. in Bangkok from 17% in 2003 to 28% in 2005) (van Griensven, 2006).
LATIN AMERICA
The HIV epidemics in Latin America remain generally stable, and HIV transmission continues to occur among populations at higher risk of exposure, including sex workers and men who have sex with men. The estimated number of new HIV infections in Latin America in 2007 was 100,000 [47,000–220,000], bringing to 1.6 million [1.4 million–1.9 million] the total number of people living with HIV in this region. An estimated 58,000 [49,000–91,000] people died of AIDS in the past year.
Unprotected sex between men is an important factor in the epidemics of Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru in South America, as well as in several Central American countries, including El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama.
About one third of all people living with HIV in Latin America reside in Brazil. In 2005, an estimated 620 000 [370,000–1 million] people were living with HIV. Although initially concentrated primarily among men who have sex with men, the epidemic subsequently spread to injecting drug users and eventually into the general population, with increasing numbers of women becoming infected (Dourado et al., 2007).
It is estimated that a large proportion of infections among women can be attributed to the behavior of their male sexual partners (Silva & Barone, 2006). However, unprotected sex between men remains an important factor, and is estimated to account for about half of all HIV infections that are sexually transmitted in Brazil.
HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in Brazil has declined in some cities as a result of harm-reduction programs, changing from injecting to inhaling drugs, and mortality among drug users (UNAIDS & WHO, 2006).
In Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, HIV infections continue to be concentrated among men who have sex with men (MartÃnez, Elea & Chiu, 2006; Ministerio de Salud y Deportes, ONUSIDA, 2007a,b).
National HIV prevalence in Peru is estimated to be low and concentrated in specific populations. Prevalence among men who have sex with men remained between 18% and 22% in various studies conducted between 1996 and 2002 (Sanchez et al., 2007; Ministerio de Salud del Peru, 2006).
Against the background of widespread homophobia, high HIV prevalence has been found among men who have sex with men in several Central American countries, including Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama. Compared with HIV prevalence in the adult general population, research in 2002 suggested that infection levels among men who have sex with men were seven times higher in Honduras, 10 times higher in Guatemala and Panama, 22 times higher in El Salvador and 38 times higher in Nicaragua (Soto et al., 2007).
High levels of HIV prevalence have also been found among female sex workers in Honduras (10%), Guatemala (4%) and El Salvador (3%), but low prevalence of 0.2% in Nicaragua and Panama (Soto et al., 2007)
NORTH AMERICA, WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE
In these regions, the total number of people living with HIV is increasing. This increase is due mainly to the life-prolonging effects of anti-retroviral therapy and an increase in the number of new HIV diagnoses in Western Europe since 2002, combined with a relatively stable number of new HIV infections each year in North America. Overall, approximately 2.1 million [1.1 million–3.0 million] people in North America, Western and Central Europe were living with HIV in 2007, including the 78 000 [19 000–86 000] who acquired HIV in the past year. In the context of widespread access to effective antiretroviral treatment, comparatively few people died of AIDS—32,000 [20,000–84,000] in 2007.
The United States of America is one of the countries with the largest number of HIV infections in the world. Based on data from the 33 states and four dependent territories with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting, men accounted for most of the HIV or AIDS diagnoses (74%) among adults and adolescents in the country in 2005. More than half of all newly diagnosed HIV infections (53%) in 2005 were among men who have sex with men. Persons exposed to HIV through heterosexual intercourse with a non-regular partner accounted for just under one third (32%) of newly diagnosed HIV infections and AIDS cases, while about 18% occurred among injecting drug users (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007a).
Racial and ethnic minorities continue to be disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic in the United States. Although African Americans represent about 13% of the population (US Census Bureau, 2006) they accounted for 48% of new HIV or AIDS diagnoses in 2005.
AIDS was the fourth leading cause of death among African Americans aged 25–44 years in the United States in 2004 (Anderson, Mosher & Chandra, 2006; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006). Hispanics, who comprise about 14% of the population, accounted for 18% of new diagnoses (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007b). ""
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