Comments on: Myth of the Russian AIDS Apocalypse

By: AK

AK — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:30:06 +0000

Available en français at Le Kremlin contre le sida by Alexandre Latsa.

By: Review of “America Alone” (M. Steyn) | Sublime Oblivion

Review of “America Alone” (M. Steyn) | Sublime Oblivion — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:20:45 +0000

[...] apocalypse. Assumes the spread will follow a sexual, sub-Saharan pattern of transmission, whereas in reality a) it remains confined to the (small) injecting drug-user subpopulation and b) the number of [...]

By: Through the Looking Glass at Russia’s Demography | Sublime Oblivion

Through the Looking Glass at Russia’s Demography | Sublime Oblivion — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:50:12 +0000

[...] remains contained among injecting drug users. Models projecting imminent mass deaths from AIDS unrealistically assume heterosexual, sub-Saharan Africa transmission patterns, which is unbacked by sociological analysis or surveillance [...]

By: Rite of Spring: Russia Fertility Trends | Sublime Oblivion

Rite of Spring: Russia Fertility Trends | Sublime Oblivion — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:37:22 +0000

[...] is going to experience an AIDS mortality crisis sometime in the next few years. As I noted in The Myth of the Russian AIDS Apocalypse, the models used by Eberstadt and other prophets of doom are critically flawed, because according [...]

By: Grenade Fishing on the Potomac | Sublime Oblivion

Grenade Fishing on the Potomac | Sublime Oblivion — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:48:06 +0000

[...] than a demographic crisis”. My own dependency ratio projections are far from cataclysmic. The notion of a Russian AIDS Apocalypse is a myth, because according to the international research program Knowledge for Action in HIV/AIDS in [...]

By: Myth of the Yellow Peril | Sublime Oblivion

Myth of the Yellow Peril | Sublime Oblivion — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:16:35 +0000

[...] Forum « Myth of the Russian AIDS Apocalypse [...]

By: Michael Averko

Michael Averko — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:45:09 +0000

I included this post in my most recent compilation of newly released articles:

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@270.9uXYfZj2epE@.7760b692/1323

AK responds: Thanks Mike.

By: Topics about Health, Food and Well being » Archive » Myth of the Russian AIDS Apocalypse

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:38:49 +0000

[...] Sublime Oblivion created an interesting post today on Myth of the Russian AIDS ApocalypseHere’s a short outlineModels 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. [...]

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