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Originally Posted by marcop
How is this relevant? How does the risk for people in, say, sub-Saharan Africa or South-East Asia have any bearing on the rate of transmission in Los Angeles county?
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This how different sub strains of HIV are passed around. Various areas of the world have certain sub strains of HIV.
In a perfect world, no one who would ever have sex with someone from LA would ever visit either of those regions of the world and would refrain from having sex with prostitutes from those regions of the world, either in those countries or in LA (lots of trafficked prostitutes in LA). They would also refrain from having sex with anyone else who may have had sex with someone who had sex with someone from those regions. But none of us live in a perfect world.
HIV is global. People travel everywhere. People have sex. People have sex with other people who traveled to other places and had sex with high risk people.
IMHO, it is very relevant. Who is keeping track of all the performers when they go out of the country, and who they sleep with while they are there?
The graphic ADG posted before sums it up nicely. It properly represents one male porn actor who came back from Brazil, where he caught HIV.
