Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 63 819 023 at 12.30pm Wednesday August 10 2005
A survey conducted by members of the United States’s HIV Vaccine Communications Campaign of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has uncovered mixed feelings about HIV vaccines.
Subjects were chosen from three groups that are highly affected by HIV: African-Americans, Hispanics and men who have sex with men (MSM).
One of the most shocking discoveries was that several people believe an HIV vaccine already exists and is being kept a secret.
Forty-seven percent of African-Americans, 26% of Hispanics and 13% of MSM said they believed this conspiracy theory.
Phill Wilson, executive director of the Black Aids Institute, was not surprised by the numbers. ‘I think, quite frankly, there is a general distrust of the medical industry,” he said.
‘The bottom line is we have too few black organisations with the infrastructure and capacity to address the problems of HIV/Aids.”
Source: Gay.com