Most of the straight community seems to think that AIDS is a problem of minorities. It's always those homos..

those black people in Africa...those IV drug users...etc....They seem to get around any concern that it might be happening in their own back yard. What I see on here about men cheating on their wives with gays...and the general ignorance amongst a great deal of the straight population (and some of the younger gays) makes me really worried. Do they honestly think that AIDS is not a global problem? It's been 25 years and people are sick and/or dying everywhere...and yet mainstream American doesn't seem to think that it is near them. What do you think it will take before 'middle america'(including the whole world) stands up and notices? The deaths of their own children?...I hope not. What can we do to make people aware that this is not a minority problem?

it is easy to see why some people choose their screen names. MSboobhead is a mess, an idiot, blithering jerk. Why the attack to a good question.
Until the population realizes that HIV is spread much more easily between men and women, NOT men to men, or needles, their will be an ever increasing infection rate. 30 million people in Africa and Asia have HIV, 2.5 million die annually, and this is not a homosexual number. 98% of prostitutes in the US are infected. The Carabbean nations are inundated in the disease, and they are not openly gay in these cultures. It is a disease that infects straight much more easily than gay, yet in stupid America, we have been led to believe it is a "Gay" disease. Sad. This kind of media coverage has given straight teens a misguided feeling that they cannot get AIDS...Wrong answer...it is the fastest growning segment of infection in the US. Sad.

education. but if they refuse to learn there really is nothing we can do

people want to belive basd thinfs can't happen to them. they want to believe that even though their 14 year old daughter let her friend pierce her ears or give her a tattoo that there is no way they could get aids from sharing needles.
if we don't accept that it is easy to get this disease, than more will die.
I don't know how we can make people understand. why would they want to when they feel safer saying it can't happen to them or their families?

ignorance, stupidity and fear. those people who think it only happens to "minorities" are in denial...they don't want to believe something they think happens only "those people" could actually happen to them. I can only hope they don't continue to be so arrogant that they don't think they need protection and get it themselves/pass it on to others. I don't know what else we can do but continually try to educate them. if we can get through to some of them, we can still make some difference.

Dear friend,If I knew the answer to that, I'd be in line for a Nobel prize. How do we stop smoking, and get people to take care of themselves generally
They will not see what they cannot conceive is possible.
Rose P.

My step sisters mom who is white & straight lost her battle with AIDS 8 years ago. She had several boyfriends who were also HIV positive. They all got it from sharing needles for their drugs. I am very aware of how many non minorities die from this & hopefully you've educated at least a few.

The fact that you think a straight 'community' actually exists is funny. People are not brought together as a 'community' because of where they put their genitals or who they share their beds with.

I'm not going to treat a gay man like my 'brother' just because we both happen to enjoy sucking penises.