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(3,317 posts)The court decision is about parents making the decision for their children. Since when are toddlers at risk to get HIV through sexual intercourse? And what has the drug problem in Russia got to do with anything?
As regards the numbers of new HIV infections, here are solid, comparable statistics:
New diagnoses of HIV infection in 2009
US (for some reason, this only includes the numbers of "40 states and five dependent areas", but let's neglect that slight distortion)
42,959
http://www.avert.org/usa-statistics.htm
Germany (estimate based on results of HIV tests which must be reported, but sometimes it is not clear if it is a FIRST diagnose)
~ 3,000
http://www.vergissaidsnicht.de/uploads/media/Aids_Zahlen_Deutschland_2009.pdf
http://www.vergissaidsnicht.de/fakten.html
Population estimates taken from Wikipedia:
USA (2012) 313,820,000
Germany (2010) 81,799,600
Estimated HIV infections per 100,000 inhabitants (new infections total divided by population multiplied with 100,000)
US: 13.6
Germany: 3.6