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Homosexuality Does Not Cause Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome-Reply
Ernesto Parra, MD, MPH
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(12):1222-1223.
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In reply
Feldman pointed out that in the "Knowledge of AIDS" section, the authors may have been misleading in writing that "most subjects (correctly) knew that homosexuality was the primary cause for AIDS among men." He is correct. The actual question subjects were asked to respond "correct" or "incorrect" to was "Most of the men in the U.S. who have AIDS got it by having sex with other men who were infected with the AIDS virus?"
Most subjects answered this as "correct." Although this homosexual behavior is the primary reason for the high incidence of AIDS among men in the United States, homosexuality in and of itself is not the primary cause of AIDS among men. A male homosexual who shares a monogamous relationship with a partner who is negative for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (who does not use intravenous drugs, has not received blood products, and does not have an
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