 different than those presented by FOARP. Infection rates vary (approximately, of course) between 1:10 and 1:500 for anal sex, and between 1:1,000 and 1:10,000 for vaginal sex. And remember, the recepient is much more exposed for BOTH transmission types.
I also remember how amused I was when in 2006 I saw a Ugandan newspaper article saying that AIDS activists are “very alarmed” that Ugandans are becoming less concerned with AIDS. Why? Because recent statistics from Mbale (a town in Eastern Uganda, mentioned in ‘Casino Royale’, btw) show that 70% of HIV+ married couples are ‘discordant’, i.e. one partner is HIV-. Remember these people shaft for YEARS, do it DAILY, cheat REGULARLY, bother little about CONDOMS, and are LEAST concerned with hygiene.
So instead of asking themselves whether they’ve got anything wrong, the guys simply get “very alarmed”..
C’mon, “dry and tight” is not a common thing in the whole of Africa. It’s mostly a Zambian deep-village thing, as far as I know.
There’s no ‘African’ way of having sex, each country and each tribe is different. For Rwandans for example, they like it very wet. I mean VERY wet. For that purpose, they have leather beadsheets in local hotels.
I am not sure it is a good thing to hide the truth from the people for fear of decreasing their alertness. 
I am also not sure that it’s good to avoid “victmising” and “offending” some people through killing others in process. I believe MANY African sex workers would still be alive had they known what they risk when they are being offered ENORMOUS pay for unprotected anal sex.
I’ve seen the ‘shock and awe’ which these girls experience when they learn this information which as you say “has been known for years”. Probably this is why the “anti-AIDs campaigners” (it’s AIDS, not AIDs btw) have to remain quiet – because the moment they are exposed, they will likely be beaten up and chased away by their audiences.

I hope we can put all of these cracks about anal sex behind us (they reveal a deep-seated hostility) and encourage more penetrating study of the fundamental causes of AIDS in Africa. We must get to the bottom of this!
I kind of question how enacting a conservative policy of not mentioning anal sex is PC.  Somehow the gay community in the U.S. isn’t up in arms about that. The notion, though, that gay sex is responsible for the transmission of AIDS in Africa doesn’t seem likely for the reason that homosexuality is really not accepted at all in African society after African society.
Instead, HIV in Africa has been linked to industrialization and migrant labor coming out from the country side to the cities, where the men sleep with prostitutes. They get AIDS and bring it back to their village where they pass it onto their wives, concubines, etc… It seems likely to me that people working in the cities are using anal sex as default contraception, sleeping with prostitutes.
So I don’t think there’s a PC issue here at all, because there likely isn’t a rash of gayness in Africa. Instead, it’s a case of conservative and puritan values leading to a non-mention of a source of AIDS transmission because it’s too graphic a picture.
 It’s a much more likely transmission vector on a case-by-case basis, so even if it’s not the most common act it can still cause more cases than other forms of sex.
That said, I agree it’s silly to call this an issue of being PC. As you say, they talk about anal sex here in America, so this whole “avoiding anti-gay backlash” theory doesn’t wash.
Aids is biological warfare, unleashed by the American elite to depopulate much of resource rich Africa. It was introduced to the african population via a smallpox vaccination scheme in the Congo during the early 1970s.
Face it, Ethiopian Dude, you have a huge cock. Africans have huge cocks. When Africans penetrate vaginally or anally, you’re far more likely to spread HIV, due to the possibility of tissue tearing. Your people have gigantic cocks, what kind of man invents a conspiracy to cover this up?
Natural selection is occurring upon the African people to deprive them of the one advantage that men worldwide long for: gigantic dongs.   That I will not allow.
Boah, so much comments.
Thank you, Exiled, for posting this subject. I didn’t even think of it. And the notion someone wrote about in the comments: Rape in conflict zones. We had this problem here in Switzerland during an ad campaign going “No blood or anal fluids in mouth or vagina” or something like that (displaying fruits and vegetables). The Federal Agency for Health had to justify its campaign because everyone “forgot what the condom is for”, they said. Imagine a campaign like that in america or *grasp* africa.
Why does Russia have a high rate? Prostitution and nothing to do. Sex is like tv sometimes.
I know lots of ppl who wouldn’t read your blog but i appreciate your views.
Yes, “hysteria” and “homophobia.” 
I’ve read some great pieces on this webzine, and empiricism led me to believe that this was the case for all articles here. However, this piece has totally undone my hypothesis. It’s lazy, unconvincing, and revolting.
If you’re going to argue that the out-of-control AIDS infection rate in Africa is due to an anal sex taboo, you’re going to have to supply more evidence than two single studies and smug asides about the unknown wonders of anal sex. In the very BBC article that you cite, there is controversy regarding the conclusions of the German study. You’d have to furnish some sociological evidence about the widespread practice of anal sex in Africa, but that’s not necessary in the iconoclastic-for-the-hell-of-it tone you’re assuming. As it stands, your thesis is about as well-supported as the broad generalities utilized by great US minds such as every college freshman and conservative icon William F. Buckley.
But don’t get me wrong; several powerful institutions in the Global North, particularly the US and the Catholic Church, have colossally failed to control this humanitarian tragedy due to antiquated moralities. 
Oh, it’s “revolting!”  Well, some of us do: we watch pornos and the very size of said Africans’ cocks helps us ejaculate, because we’re perverts. And we’re the vanguard of human enlightenment, as it happens.
Maybe anal in Africa could be as popular as blowjobs in America? Why is this “revolting”? I mean you’re insane, you’re a Christian, that’s all, it’s the same brainparts misfiring stupidly.
 Stick to vaginas, it’s all the same. If you’re gay, cool, but be careful. Still, if you didn’t have a TV, and wanted something to keep you awake, you’d try anal.
The single best use of money in saving African lives is to go all-out anti-anal. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
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Q: Find a longitude given a pair of (lat,long) and an offset latitude In a geodetic coordinate system (wgs84), i have a pair of (latitude,longitude) say (45,50) and (60,20). Also i am said that a new pair of latitude,longitude lies along the line joining these two and at an offset of say 0.1 deg lat from (45,50) i.e. (45.1, x). How do i find this new point? What i tried was to apply the straight line equation 
y = mx+c
m = (lat1 - lat2)/ long1-long2)
c = lat1 - m * long1

but that seemed to give wrong results.

A: Your problem is the calculation of m. You have turned it around!
The normal formula is:
a = (y1 - y2) / (x