HIV ignorance
April 7th 2006, 16:55 Jeff Sela
The BBC has some worrying news of how badly informed people in the UK are about HIV. The results show that basic knowledge of the disease decreased drastically between 2000 and 2005:
The poll found 79% knew HIV could be passed on through sex between a man and a woman without a condom—down from 91% in 2000. In London, where HIV rates are highest, only 70% of people were aware.
Almost a third of the Londoners they asked didn't know you could get HIV from sex without a condom! That's scary.
Have people just forgotten this stuff, or is it that there are now five years worth of kids who are too young to remember the TV campaign in the '80s? If the latter, then how did their sex education fail to get these basics through to them?
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::: Harry, March 30th 2007, 23:23:
It's the number of immigrants, pal. Sex Ed. is simply a tool for sexualising children - after all, in our atomised ignorant society, if people weren't endlessly copping off they might do something dangerous like change the world.
