Posted on 05/22/2016 8:46:02 AM PDT by PROCON
An issue brief published on Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control claimed that that Southerners’ “racism,” and “homophobia” may be causing high HIV rates in the South that are disproportionately high among African-Americans and homosexuals.
According to the issue brief, Southern states have 37 percent of the U.S. population and 44 percent of all HIV infected people living in America. HIV rates among gay men and African-Americans account for the lion’s share of those infected with HIV.
“African Americans are severely affected by HIV in the South, accounting for 54 percent of new HIV diagnoses in 2014,” the brief notes.
The majority of those diagnoses were among black gay men, the CDC reports: “Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) face an especially heavy burden, accounting for 59 percent of all HIV diagnoses among African Americans in the South.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
The CDC does not suggest individual lifestyle choices as a possible factor resulting in high HIV rates.
No, of course not, that would be telling the truth, and that would really be mean and hurtful.
I’m Surprised it’s not Sarah Palin’s Fault.
Boy, I’m sure glad Obama got elected. Racial harmony, diversity, all that good stuff.
Actually no. Too much unsafe screwin’ around, or dirty needle usage are what ‘causes’ high HIV rates, and those afflicted know it.
Something like 10% of gay men have over 1,000 sexual partners.
I think this is “disparate impact” reasoning. If Southern white gays weren’t so bigoted, they’d be sharing more with their down-low brothers, and have higher rates of infection.
LOL - yeah right... AND conservative cause Global Warming too, right?
PC ‘true believers’...
The disease could have been stopped in its tracks 30 Years ago if the CDC had done its job and isolated the primary vector.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't the original connotation of the "black man's burden"
The truth is the first casualty of war.
We have been in a war for a long time now.
And if you believe that crap...
Guns kill people,
pencils misspell words,
cars drive drunk &
spoons make you fat.
I’m sure Key West being in the South has nothing to do with this.
It’s crystal clear that it’s racism.
Can’t be. She’s not a Southerner.
Has to be Bush’s fault.
Newspeak by the CDC. How Orwellian of them.
Or globull warming, er...climate change.
That’s like saying all those health magazines promoting diet and exercise are now to blame from people getting obese. LOL
WTH does “racism” or “homophobia” have to do with HIV???
Shades of 1984; our own government is the enemy.
Or Bush’s.
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