Posted on 09/23/2010 4:18:33 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
CHICAGO, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Nearly one in five gay and bisexual men in 21 major U.S. cities are infected with HIV, and nearly half of them do not know it, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
Young men, and especially young black men, are least likely to know if they are infected with HIV, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We need to reinvigorate our response to preventing HIV among gay and bisexual men," Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, said in a telephone interview.
"We can't allow HIV to continue its devastating toll among gay and bisexual men, and in particular, among young black men."
Mermin's comments echoed an AIDS policy rolled out in July by the White House that asked states and federal agencies to find ways to cut new HIV infections by 25 percent. [IDnN13274350]
Researchers at the CDC studied 8,153 men who have sex with men in 21 U.S. cities. The men were taking part in the 2008 National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System, which looked at prevalence and awareness of the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Overall, they found that 19 percent of gay men are infected with HIV.
The study found that 28 percent of gay black men infected with HIV, compared with 18 percent of Hispanic men and 16 percent of white men.
Black men in the study were also least likely to be aware of their infection, with 59 percent unaware of their infection compared with 46 percent of Hispanic men and 26 percent of white men.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Looks like they reap what they sow...
Good grief! No, AiDS is not a gay-disease. No, of course not. /s. And they want the Army to harbor characters like this.
Well if they would just stay seated and their mouth shut they would be ok
And we want them in the US military because?
One thing that isn’t mentioned in the article...among the demographic of young black males cited, a high % of the same also are now, or have been imprisoned...and that’s a major way it is spread....
Yes, they need to quit Barney Frankin’ around...
Perhaps this should be listed as a “unhealthy” lifestyle.
Maybe Michelle can suggest carrots instead.
these guys smuggle bone and wrangle rump and they expect what?
they dont expect babies come out of there do they???
As I said in the other thread for same that got pulled: It’s the bisexual sub cohort that scares the most, since unsuspecting women may be the victims. Even so, it’s relatively difficult for a hetero male to get infected from an HIV positive women.
oh god that image is never going to leave me yuck.
GAY= Got Aids Yet? They are self-cancelling. sd
There were allegations that “The One” was on “the low down,” and he never released his health records (as is now custom for a presidential candidate), just a one page letter from a doc saying that he was fit as a fiddle.
“Well if they would just stay seated and their mouth shut they would be ok”
Now, that’s funny!
Say what you want about Family Guy but it's a riot sometimes.
Thanks for that. People need to know that if you date guys who have done time in the joint, they have taken or given sexual favors in prison. If they recieve it they do not consider themselves gay, only the one who is giving it up.
They then bring that back into the open populace.
We need more data. Specifically we need more data on the demographics of the 8,000 or so who volunteered for the study. How did they differ, not only in age, and “ethnicity” as the study reported, but in other “lifestyle” (single, “monogamous”, “incarcerated”, etc.) factors as well. Otherwise the %’s in the report are accepted as equally applicable to “all” “gay men” and from it the funding requests are ballooned to accommodate that concept as well.
Particularly when the cheapest remedy is available to “all” Don’t do it and if you do put a cap on it.
Why when people don’t do that, “government” makes it OUR fault that “nothing” is done about it; I will never understand.
Who cares?
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