Baby with HIV cured

By accident:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/health/for-first-time-baby-cured-of-hiv-doctors-say.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

So now two people have been cured, in absolute terms. And I'd imagine plenty of people are cured, functionally, via antiretroviral drugs.

One thing that surprised me in the story was that only 200 babies a year in the U.S. are born HIV-positive. I thought it would have been much more than that. Are pregnant women automatically tested?

 

Only gay men get AIDS. They don't have babies.

 

You jest, but heterosexuals rarely get AIDS. At least in the United States. (Not sure why it spreads more easily in Africa, seemingly. I'm sure there's an explanation out there.)

But: Drug-addicted prostitutes do. And you'd figure more than 200 of them per year would have babies.

 

Not if they have sold their ovaries for heroin.

 

A cure for HIV seems like it would remove the consequences of bad choices and set society on the path to hedonistic ruin. I'm against it.

 

Yep, those babies in Africa simply made the horrible choice of being fucking born. Get a clue.

 

It's called sarcasm...

 

Not as many condoms.

 

That's part of it, I'm sure. But I don't know that it gets us all the way there. It's simply difficult to spread, via vaginal sex. Not impossible, obviously. But difficult. Are sub-saharan Africans so wildly promiscuous that they buck the odds? Are they engaging in a high frequency of heterosexual anal sex?

 

Nancy Reagan says "Just say no!" Yeah, that worked pretty well.

 

Story says that's just semantics when it comes to babies, though.

 

Yeah, just look at the 70s.