WI: AIDS never leaves Africa

Let's say, for whatever reason, AIDS never leaves a small corner of West Africa, disappears quickly, and is never heard from again. That, or the disease just never comes to be. What now? What are the effects? With no STD killing people off, is the Sexual Revolution started with The Pill prolonged? What are the other political effects? Reagan has one less black mark on his legacy but, with so many people who died OTL alive in this one, what are the Butterflies on America's Gay Rights moment? Your thoughts?
 
One effect is thee would be more attention, positive and negative to other STD.

In some respects AIDs fueled a spasm of anti gay activity, but that might have been fueled by other things as well.

AIDs devastated the porn industry, that would have developed in a different direction.

It caused the hetro swinger culture to change as well.
 
One effect is thee would be more attention, positive and negative to other STD.

In some respects AIDs fueled a spasm of anti gay activity, but that might have been fueled by other things as well.

AIDs devastated the porn industry, that would have developed in a different direction.

It caused the hetro swinger culture to change as well.
There'll definitely be Butterflies. As I said, an unabated Sexual Revolution will be massive.
 

Archibald

Banned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Origins

The earliest well-documented case of HIV in a human dates back to 1959 in the Congo.[235] The earliest retrospectively described case of AIDS is believed to have been in Norway beginning in 1966.[236] In July 1960, in the wake its independence, the United Nations recruited Francophone experts and technicians from all over the world to assist in filling administrative gaps left by Belgium, who did not leave behind an African elite to run the country. By 1962, Haitians made up the second largest group of well-educated experts (out of the 48 national groups recruited), that totaled around 4500 in the country.[237][238] Dr. Jacques Pépin, a Quebecer author of The Origins of AIDS, stipulates that Haiti was one of HIV's entry points to the United States and that one of them may have carried HIV back across the Atlantic in the 1960s.[238] Although, the virus may have been present in the United States as early as 1966,[239] the vast majority of infections occurring outside sub-Saharan Africa (including the U.S.) can be traced back to a single unknown individual who became infected with HIV in Haiti and then brought the infection to the United States some time around 1969.[240] The epidemic then rapidly spread among high-risk groups (initially, sexually promiscuous men who have sex with men). By 1978, the prevalence of HIV-1 among homosexual male residents of New York City and San Francisco was estimated at 5%, suggesting that several thousand individuals in the country had been infected.[240]

https://books.google.fr/books?id=dT...onepage&q=Pépin""The Origins of AIDS"&f=false
 

Archibald

Banned
The work of that Doctor Pépin is amazing and show that AIDS should never have happened in the first place. For example, when the virus went from monkeys to bushmeats (through blood contact), there were no more than three of them.

Using colonial census data, surveys of how modern bush-meat hunters butcher kills, and infection rates among nurses stuck by dirty needles, Dr. Pépin calculates that, in the early 1920s, a maximum of 1,350 hunters might have had blood-to-blood contact with troglodytes chimps. Only 6 percent of the chimps — about 80 — would have been infected, and fewer than 4 percent of the scratched hunters probably could have caught it. That would suggest only three infected hunters at most.


Later it was a single haitian that carried the illness to Haiti, and then it leaped to the USA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/health/18aids.html

Also this
Hemo-Caribbean’s co-owner was Luckner Cambronne, leader of the feared Tontons Macoutes secret police. Nicknamed the “Vampire of the Caribbean,” Mr. Cambronne, who died in 2006, bled 6,000 sellers who were paid as little as $3 a day and exported 1,600 gallons of plasma to the United States each month, according to an article in The New York Times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luckner_Cambronne

The New York times article is, by itself, a good start for a "no AIDS" TL.

You say Freddy Mercury and I say Thierry Le Luron, which was France very own Andy Kauffman and died of AIDS in 1986. Le Luron was an absolutely terrific impersonator of both Giscard, Miterrand and many others.
 
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Move the POD to pre-1962.
In 1962, Britain changed immigration laws to allow people from all over the British Commonwealth to move to the British Isles.
Many black African immigrants brought with them a fondness for "bush meat." A ton of "bush meat" is still imported to the UK every day. Bush meat is mainly consumed by first generation immigrants.
Less traffic in "bush meat" means slower spread of AIDS.
 
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