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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 8, 2024

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Semi-related: in African countries in which it was and is predominantly straight men and women with HIV (to be clear, gay men in these countries still have it at higher rates, but they are not the majority), it was predominantly prostitutes who served as reservoirs for the virus. While the rate of infection was low, it was high enough that, over time, ever larger numbers of straight men (and then their wives and eventual children) became infected.