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Subject: Re: AIDS and Asians: Why so few Asians, and Why Nobody Knows
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apple!well.sf.ca.us!well!arthurhu@uunet.UU.NET (Arthur Ta-Chuan Hu) writes:
|Arthur Hu
|Asian Week
|
|To the USENET community: Here's a column I had published in Asian Week
|in San Francisco, and the response. Please email any comments on Asians,
|AIDS, and gay Asians.
|
|Asians and AIDS
|
|I've got more bad news for those who think that, as people
|of color, Asians must be worse off than whites.  Asians may
|be the fastest growing group for AIDS, but what nobody will
|say is the fact that they're still by far the least likely
|group to get it, or why that is. Asians got 23% of the AIDS
|prevention funds in 1990 in San Francisco. That might be in
|line with the 23% Asian population in 1980, but with the
|population probably closer now to 28%, Asians were only 3%
|of cases, and half of those were Filipino.

But AIDS does not discriminate by race.  Once you are exposed, it
doesn't matter what race you are.  You can't just feel safe because
others who look like you aren't getting it.  If you practice unsafe
sex or drug needle sharing, you are still at high risk, regardless of
skin color.