THis is a short letter in response to how Balaji's comments about how gays were responsible for the rise in AIDS. I thought it was rather brilliantly written, so enjoy:

Aren't we barking up wrong tree?
WE HAVE an Aids problem and two thirds of the afflicted are heterosexuals who can not only pass the infection to their spouses but also to their unborn children.

But what do we do? We focus on the one third - gays - to explain the sharp rise in new Aids cases last year.

And we blame the 'epidemic' on the annual party in Sentosa, ignoring the 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week activity that has also, by coincidence, mushroomed in the Joo Chiat and Geylang red-light districts.

Maureen Koh Mei Hwa (Mdm)