You are in a monogamous relationship, and know the status of your partner, and know thay they are faithful to you, and neither of you are drug users and/or have intentions to get bad piercings, tattoos, or blood trasnfusions or other high risk things, then you too, are at risk... lesbians are not immune to this problem. Not under any circumstances whatsoever.

Just saying...

However, whenever anyone says America, they are usually referring to the USA, whereas anyone who lives in North or South America, is in fact, American.

Cultural idiom, and vernacular slip into our daily diction, though the BBC and other places, make Africa seem like a huge mess, and one giant country, the fact remains, that the people who write for and run this web site, have only good intentions. (Be that what the road to hell is lined with or not; personally I think the road to hell is lined with greed and cruelty but I digress.)

So, like with you wishing not to be called merely African or to have anything happening on the continent constantly referred to as happening in Africa, as if that was a single country, it would be an idea, to sometimes realise the intention behind an action, versus jumping all over it...this is not the BBC, no one here is trying to do anyone any harm, accidentally or not.

Also, it is possible, the omission of the country was accidental. Usually such things are included, as most people would not know the city is in Kenya.

As for your statement suggesting that the headline, (headline?) was a deliberate intent to cause an association between HIV and Africa, I think that is grossly unfair. To me, it was a statement clearly saying that Kelly Rowland had gone to Africa, to promote AIDS awareness. Not that: Africa and ZOMG teh AIDS, again!

We, as lesbians, (etc.) face constant discrimination, you only have to type in lesbian into google news, and the sensationalist headlines are all over the place. To assume that the writer of this article is attempting this with Africa and AIDS is very unfair and uncalled for.

This site, an entertainment web site with a reputation of fair play and trying hard, and being inclusive, and certainly not being a bunch of gossip mongers, or bile spewing miscreants. (as some entertainment sites are - even gay ones)

You could have just asked nicely for an adjustment, or you could have just made your point in a less antagonistic way and with less accusation and assumption, instead of unloading your bile, primarily gathered from other places, onto our laps.

You do not know the writer of this article, and you chastised her for doing something that you yourself have done with your post on this article...

But, you do have an excellent point about mainstream media in general. One would think that there is nothing good in Africa, if one just looks at headlines...which is a pity, as it is so grossly untrue...



PS: I do not know the writer of this article, either. In fact, I did not even notice who wrote it, and still have no idea. Just so we are clear, I am not part of this web site in some official way, I am just a visitor.