That's it. Shower.
It sounded to the Cow a bit like the Five Second Rule. Anyone who's seen supposedly intelligent people blowing on a retrieved food item that has fallen on the floor to render it fit for consumption will recognise this triumph of desire over common sense. Still, the Cow found it comforting that someone who had sat on the AIDS advisory council was so fully informed about matters of risk and prevention.
uMalume had previously stated that the reason he proceeded to have unprotected sex with the complainant was because "the risk was minimal" for him to become infected with HIV. This he had gleaned from his work on the AIDS advisory council.
Carnivorous Cow could not help wondering how, in that case, men who claimed to have sex only with women became infected. Women were not, as far as she knew, infecting each other in large numbers; yet the incidence and prevalence of HIV infection among South African women was high. If they were being infected by men, how were these men being infected in the first place? By other men - in which case there was dishonesty about sexual practices on an unprecedented scale, and previous estimates of one in ten men engaging in sex with men were completely inadequate.... or by women, in which case uMalume had it wrong. Carnivorous Cow found it difficult to decide - was the likelihood of an entire industry of research being wrong greater or less than the likelihood of a popular leader being wrong?