Sounds like young South Africans have finally gotten the news that condom use is the way to avoid infection. The report I have here (from The Week) says that people are still having multiple sex partners, but new infection rates have declined significantly. South Africa has the worlds largest HIV positive population, some 5.2 million people. Of South African women age 20-34, one third are HIV positive. One third. It's not hard to imagine the disaster in the future.

NEUROSYPHILIS
progressive loss of mental and physical fx
Treponema pallidum, spirochete, invades CNS
four stages, if you will:
1) asymptomatic (painless chancre, condyloma lata, urethral discharge green)
2) meningovascular (perivascular inflam presents as stroke of MCA or basilar branch in young person, these vessels being in the base of the skull, may result in cranial nerve palsies)
3) paretic (20-30 years, progressive: spirochetes invade parenchymal tissue-->inflam kills brain cells-->chronic perivascular and meningeal inflammatory changes-->brain atrophy)
4) tabes dorsalis (present with loss of pain sensation, bladder incontinence, loss of peripheral reflexes, impairment of vibration sense and proprioception, progressive ataxia dt demyelination of posterior column, inflam and fibrosis of dorsal sensory nerve roots-->ataxia, loss of pain and proprioception-->demetia-->vegetative-->death)(Argyl-Robertson pupil does not react to direct light but is consensually reactive and accomodative)

What's MCA?
( part 2, Miller notes: neurosyphilis, JC virus, measles (rubeola), polio, rabies, HIV, slow viruses (prions), and Reye's syndrome for good measureCollapse )

Of course we already knew it, but here's scientific documentation of the relationship between the hardships experienced by a child to severe obesity, physical inactivity, depressed mood, and suicide attempts as well as ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic bronchitis or emphysema, history of hepatitis or jaundice, skeletal fractures and poor self-rated health.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study:
http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0749-3797/PIIS0749379798000178.pdf

I found this by way of Mercola, and the discussion in the comments is interesting:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/1/17/scientific-proof-that-your-childhood-traumas-are-a-major-factor-in-your-all-your-illnesses.aspx

( study abstract behind cutCollapse )

Can you believe it? Some of our own states are requiring girls to be vaccinated against a few strains of Human Papillovirus, which is supposedly causative in cervical cancer. So to prevent these girls from getting an STD that they could prevent with "safe sex", and that might cause cancer, our state legislators (in cahoots with the pharmaceutical corporations) are killing them. Or making them sick.
( This update from Mercola:Collapse )