where are all the tourist vectors?

Tourism to Africa is not zero. In fact it's appreciable.

Why is there very little incidence of HIV seropositivity from tourists
arriving into Europe & North America from Africa?

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Tourism to Africa is not zero. In fact it's appreciable.

Why is there very little incidence of HIV seropositivity from tourists
arriving into Europe & North America from Africa?

Maybe because Europeans and North Americans are smart enough not
to **** the locals on their trips to Africa?

It's not hard to imagine, Africans are so fugly that no rich white
tourist would ever have sex with them; but of course blacks living
in America and Europe might do so, therefore explaining why they
have a higher infection rate on both continents.

Where did you get the information that you quote? I ask because if
it's actually correct information, I find it very interesting.

I have no stats to back up my comments, but I suspect that the very
high HIV infection rates in Southern Africa are mostly amongst people
with whom most European and American tourists will have very little
contact.

My feeling is that infection rates will be highest in the rural areas
and in poorer peri-urban areas. Most tourists will be in and around
the cities where infection rates are likely to be lower.

There are several reasons why I think that infection rates would be
lower in cities:

1) People are generally better educated and better informed.
2) Condoms are freely available
3) People, women in particular, tend to be more aware of their
personal rights and are more able to take control of their lives and
decide when and with whom they engage in sexual activity.

Marc

On 14 Feb 2006 16:56:02 -0800, wrote:

Tourism to Africa is not zero. In fact it's appreciable.

Why is there very little incidence of HIV seropositivity from tourists
arriving into Europe & North America from Africa?

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Tourism to Africa is not zero. In fact it's appreciable.

Why is there very little incidence of HIV seropositivity from tourists
arriving into Europe & North America from Africa?

I remember seeing a study that claimed the majority of new HIV cases in the
UK were occurring in African immigrants and people who had traveled in
Africa.

Gary Stein