The way I see it, HIV and a number of other sexually-transmitted infections are social diseases. I realize that a lot of people get infected by dirty needles and suchlike but the vast majority get infected while having sex. The second point to note is that the Pareto Principle applies here – many people either never have sex or only have sex with one partner or very few partners while a very few others have it with a phenomenal number of different partners.

It seems clear to me that given limited resources, these resources should be directed towards those who are most prolific in the number of their sexual partners (”network hubs”) and the frequency of their intercourse with them – having sex once with a different partner every year for ten years is different from having frequent sex with 10 different people over a period of 10 years.

I patented in the US many years ago a concept that protected the anonymity of its users while allowing their partners to check on their health status. This concept, which is entirely ethical, was accepted as a “medical device” by the FDA. My website http://hivprevention.co.uk explains in some detail how it works.

Many people who have studied this entirely practical proposal have expressed scepticism as they wanted a system that was infallible. We all know that even if an excellent vaccine were to be developed tomorrow that level of protection would not be realistic so please look at my proposal with that fact at the back of your mind.

Others seem to think that it is impossible to use it for a vast number of people or even the whole population. We don’t need to do that either for if only the “hubs” of the network were included the system would move from a positive-feedback system (ever growing) to a negative-feedback system (under control and diminishing).

Also, you should keep in mind that Facebook has 400 million active users. In a country like the USA, if the one million more sexually active and promiscuous people were to use my concept, the sexual transmission of HIV would almost disappear.

Robert Nowinski
http://www.robertnowinski.net

In other news, a friend of mine came across this. It looks like it may be very relevant here!

http://tinyurl.com/2h6ngp

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