I knew that gays had a maybe five or even ten times higher chance of getting AIDS and other STD’s than heterosexuals. I didn’t know the differential was actually more like 50. Something like 20% of the US gay population (which makes up 3.5% of its total population) is HIV positive. It is 5% in the […]
Why Homosexuality Shouldn’t Be Promoted
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for AK's Blog on February 17, 2013 .23 Comments
Myth of the Russian AIDS Apocalypse
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for Da Russophile on March 1, 2009 .No Comments
Models that predict a Russian AIDS catastrophe rely on simple extrapolation from sub-Saharan Africa transmission patterns inapplicable to Russia and are as such fatally flawed.
Demography II – Out of the Death Spiral
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for Da Russophile on April 14, 2008 .32 Comments
As we covered in the previous instalment, Demographics I: The Russian Cross Reversed?, fertility rates are not abnormally low by European standards and are likely to rise further in the future. The same cannot be said of mortality rates – a ‘quiet crisis‘ that has been a ‘catastrophe of historic proportions’. Take life expectancy. As […]
