John,
I'm an electrical engineer by training, but have developed a curiosity over the
HIV-causes-AIDS hypothesis. Studies that I've read report that about 10 percent of all Central Africans, or
about 6 million, are HIV-positive and that they are distributed evenly between the sexes. The annual AIDS
risks of HIV-infected Africans is only 0.3 %, because 6 million HIV carriers generated a total of 129,000
AIDS cases from 1985 to the end of 1991. If, indeed, the annual risk of an HIV-positive African contracting
one of the AIDS-defining diseases is only 0.3% then the significance of the Winnepeg Doctor's findings is
not necessarily why this 5% subset from his population of HIV-positive prostitutes studied didn't contract
AIDS, but why such a large proportion did. This would be some indication that some other factor was
influencing the onset of AIDS given that the annual risk for HIV-positve Africans is only 0.3%.
Respectfully,
Tony Pagano