,,Actually, AIDS does not exist, in principle not, for white heterosexuals. That doesn’t actually happen.” That said FVD leader Thierry Baudet last Saturday. Aidsfonds disputes his claims: ‘It is not true. Anyone can get it. HIV affects everyone.’
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Aidsfonds does not want to react directly to Baudet’s statements: the organization has ‘consciously chosen for that’, says a spokesperson. “We want to stick to the numbers.” The fund posted this today in a twitter thread about HIV. ‘HIV does not discriminate’, it states, among other things.
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“We have no opinion about Baudet, nor about Humberto,” explains the spokesperson. “But we do have an opinion about the 37 million people living with HIV worldwide.” Presenter Humberto Tan replied to Baudet last night in response to his statements: “Baudet finds it necessary to downplay all that suffering and to pour it over with a racist, homophobic sauce.”
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‘Sow fear’
Baudet called the fear of AIDS in white men ‘irrational’ and ‘talked to us by the big pharma and the entire fear industry’. He made the comparison with corona. According to the FVD leader, both AIDS and corona are “a risk for a specific group, while the media and party cartel give the impression that the entire population is in constant mortal danger,” he explained in a tweet afterwards.
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‘My point was that in the 1990s, European straight people were terrorized with fears about AIDS when the chances of that happening were and are extremely small,’ he writes. The chance that ‘a white straight’ will get AIDS is less ‘than the chance that he will be struck by lightning’, Baudet stated during his speech on Saturday.
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But: is that even true? New. The chance that you will be struck by lightning, depending on where you are, is on average 1 in 1 to 2 million. According to the British organization Aidsmap the chance of contracting HIV if you as a man have sex with an infected woman once is 1 in 2380. But how great the chance is that you will meet someone who is infected, and you also have unprotected sex, depends on a great deal factors off. In addition, it is possible that someone has sex with an infected person more often. In short: the risk of HIV cannot be calculated unambiguously.
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‘HIV affects everyone’
What we do know: of all new HIV diagnoses in the Netherlands in 2019, 61 percent were men who contracted the virus while having sex with other men. This is evident from the HIV monitoring report 2020. Just under a third (28 percent) contracted HIV through heterosexual contact, and 11 percent in some other or unknown way. This is partly because the chance of transmitting an STI in the general sense is greater during anal sex.
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But, says the Aidsfonds: the figures differ enormously per country. “In Africa, 60 percent of HIV infections occur among young women. And if you look in Russia, it’s pretty much split 50/50 between men and women. So: HIV affects everyone.” The virus affects people from “every continent and of all genders and ages,” the fund said.
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In addition, a third of the infections transmitted through sex in the Netherlands are still not related to sex between men. In addition, the number of infections has been decreasing for some time, and nowadays the disease in the Netherlands in general is still very rare, precisely because of prevention. “A condom prevents you from getting sick,” says the Aidsfonds. “So that doesn’t help big pharma.”
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