What I have in common with the militant gay down the street

In an article describing the growing problem of AIDS around the world, I encountered the following statement:

In neighboring Vietnam, with an estimated 85,000 HIV cases, Health Minister Tran Thi Trung Chien said a stigma remained and in conservative Singapore activists said antiquated laws banning gay sex were hurting the fight against AIDS.

My first thought was--Huh? It hurts the fight against AIDS to ban one of the most common activities that spreads it? I would think that a stigma against homosexual behavior would lower that activity, and thus lower the spread of AIDS through that activity. But then I thought that perhaps the bias against gays in Vietnam creates an environment where gays are shunned and cannot get treatment or emotional care. A view I've heard expressed in America goes like this: "You only get AIDS through immoral behavior, so it's your own fault and you must accept the consequences." This of course is a bunch of baloney; many people contract AIDS through coming into innocent contact with an infected person's blood--a careless or unfortunate doctor, perhaps. And besides, there are countless "consequences" of sin that we all try to avoid or alleviate; to single out AIDS simply because it's associated with a "worse" sin in our culture is ridiculous and wrong. Even though I don't have AIDS, I don't deserve it any less than the militant gay man down the street. In fact, we all deserve whatever we get, and not one of us deserves any of the good things in our lives, because we are sinful and depraved. May we recognize that human perception of sin doesn't coincide with God's.