Most statistics on AIDS, the only federally protected plague, are
mealy mouthed and obviously intended to obscure basic facts. Can
somebody show me some genuinely revalatory tables? Something along the
lines of "risk groups" down the side and time periods across the top
with titles like Percentage of Population Infected"? In fact, just
fill in the table for me!

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 17 Dec 2004 13:30 PST

Is this the kind of info you're looking for?

"High Risk Categories
(national statistics of people diagnosed with AIDS through December 2002)

 45% Homosexual/bisexual males
 25% Injectable drug users
 6%  Homosexual/bisexual males who are also injectable drug users
 1%  Persons with hemophilia/coagulation disorder
 12% Heterosexual males and females
 1%  Transfusion and organ recipients
 1%  Mother HIV positive
 10% Other (occupational, undetermined, patients died, were lost to 
     follow-up, or refused interview)"

HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet July 2004
http://www.state.sd.us/doh/pubs/HIVhow.htm

You are right, most AIDs stats presented to the public via the press
and 'public health' propaganda are deceptive in that they conceal the
true nature or specificity of the epidemic, giving the impresion of a
generalised threat. This serves two purposes: one bad, one good.  The
bad one is an attenmpt to discredit liberal sexual attitudes 'the 60s'
and to scare everyone back into traditional morality. The good but
mistaken aim is to avoid victimization of minority 'risk groups'. In
general, in the UK, 'homosexual transmission' remains the overwhelming
categopriry. The 'heterosexial aids' figures include injecting drug
users - ie non-sexual transmission - and the fastest grouping
categories: people from Africa who caught HIV in African via
heterosexual transmission. There is not more than a dozen people who
have caught HIV via genuine heterosexual transmission (partners of
hemophiliacs apart)who are not involved with the main risk groups.

Susil Gupta - Author of 'The Aids Fraud'

We certainly agree. But there is no tabulated info in your answer.

I'm looking for something like a year-by-year table with AIDS groups
down the side with percentage of infectees alongside. Such info was
quite common in the early/mid 80s, before it became a federally
protected plague. < shrug >

Sorry--I did not realize you comment was not intended as an answer.
Also, I'm not sure I _do_ agree after all about the reasons for the
uniform unforthcomingness of AIDS "information." I think it is a
result of the intense lobbying by gay groups to promote the idea that
we are all equally vulnerable and that no particular stigma attaches
to gay persons. After the medical community was essentially terrorized
into acquiescence, like a bunch of forced religious converts they
_stayed_ terrorized long after they were no longer being outraged by
gay panthers and so forth.