Posted on 12/04/2013 8:03:31 PM PST by Morgana
WASHINGTON, DC, December 4, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows approximately 62 percent of gay men who know they have HIV/AIDS continue to engage in sexual relations without using a prophylactic, a behavior that can spread AIDS.
The report, which was released on the Friday after Thanksgiving, analyzed data gathered in 2011.
According to the report, the percentage of men with HIV/AIDS having sex with other men without a condom had increased from 55 percent in 2005, to 57 percent in 2008, to 62 percent today.
CDC spokesperson Nikky Mayes told LifeSiteNews.com in an e-mail that the “new analysis of data suggests concerning signs of sexual risk for HIV infection among gay and bisexual men in 20 major U.S. cities.”
The surveys cited in the report examine men having sex with men (MSM) for a period of 12 months.
In the report, many MSM said they tried to reduce their risk of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections by only having sex with other men who are HIV-positive.
However, the CDC noted this is still risky, because sexual partners may be unaware of their status, or may mislead about their health.
Trying to get HIV-positive gay men to use condoms may prove difficult, as their use has plummeted among homosexuals. Anal sex without condoms increased by 20 percent among homosexual men between 2005 and 2011.
As a result, the rate of AIDS infection among homosexual males has remained an epidemic. Between 2008 and 2010, the number of homosexuals with HIV/AIDS rose by 12 percent, with an especially large increase among young men having sex with other males.
Men who have sex with men, which the CDC estimates at four percent of the American population, are more than 44 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV/AIDS than heterosexual men. MSM make up 52 percent of the American population with HIV/AIDS, and account for about 63 percent of all new HIV/AIDS cases.
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To fight this, the CDC recommended MSM reduce the risk of HIV by “choosing less risky behaviors, using condoms consistently and correctly if they have vaginal or anal sex, reducing the number of sex partners, and if HIV-positive, letting potential sex partners know their status.”
It also recommends annual testing for men having sex with men, and “taking pre-exposure or post-exposure prophylaxis” as protection for some men at high risk. It also encourages more frequent testing. One-third of MSM were unaware they had HIV while engaging in risky sexual relations.
The report does not recommend abstinence for gay men, though it closes by noting reductions in “the burden of HIV among MSM is fundamental to reducing HIV infection in this country.”
Mayes told LifeSiteNews.com that “we do know that not having sex is the most reliable way to avoid infection, and we include that as a prevention option in our media materials.”
Mayes pointed LifeSiteNews.com to an August 2013 graphic from the CDC that advocates not having sex as the first of three measures to prevent gay men in relationships from getting HIV/AIDS.
The report notes two caveats: First, the surveys were primarily done in cities, meaning the results may be limited because of behavioral patterns that differ between rural and urban gay men. Second, the report bases its statistics on self-reporting, which has accuracy factors the report calls “social desirability and recall bias.”
The CDC reports that more than 300,000 MSM have died since the epidemic began in the early 1980s.
Homos want to get the AIDS virus so they can die young because being an older gay dude is miserable.
Newsflash-condoms don’t protect from the HIV virus.
Now if only we can convince them that doing muslim dudes in the M.E. is way cooooool.
Lying with statistics, in order to inflate the apparent number of gays. Actually, outright lying, since they are claiming that the baseline is "the American population."
What they should have said is "[...] four percent of American men (i.e., American males over 18 years of age)."
So, instead of 12 million gay men (4% x 300 million), there are only 4 million gay men (4% x 100 million men over 18 years of age).
Regards,
Planned Parenthood gives them pamphlets telling them that they don’t have to tell their partner about their HIV, because its their rights.
Don’t fret you bareback, rumpwrangling homo perverts—Kathleen Sebelius and Barry Soetero are both in your corner.
and now sebelius will give them preferred treatment under obamacare.
We’re supposed to care about queers when they couldn’t care less about each other. lol
With all due respect I do not understand why you, and all others like you, refuse to believe that some people are gay from the very beginning of their “sexual” life, awakening whatever you want to call it. Listen, I am just as against the gay lifestyle and positive portrayal of it as anyone here but one thing I will never understand is intelligent people arguing this aspect of the issue. Let me give you examples: First let’s start off with the premise that we are all “born” into sin (or if you are not religious then with the capacity to be imperfect)correct? Not one of us will go through life perfect and without blemish. Some of us will lie, some will cheat, some steal, hate, envy, rage, have mental illness of one kind or another. We are born innocent babies who will, upon a combination of genetics and environment, succumb to some sort of faulty way of being. For instance I have been burdened with depression ever since I was a kid. It’s my lot in life. You know on the one hand that there are birth defects and genetic illnesses and propensity towards certain aberrations in the human condition yet set homosexuality specifically aside and maintain that one couldn’t be “born” with it? Did I “choose” depression? Did my cousin choose autism? Does anyone actually choose who they feel attracted to or what foods, colors, smells they like? When I see an attractive man on the movie screen it’s not a conscious choice to find him attractive. It’s innate.
NO mental illness here to see. None at all. Move along...
It's a start.
The more unprotected queer anal sex, the faster they "breed" them selves out of the gene pool.
in the land of free to love who I want to love
Love means never having to say “I’m infected with a sexually transmitted fatal disease”
I’ve always believed a lot of infected homosexuals spread the disease intentionally. The first guy I ever met with AIDS was doing just that. The more people that are infected, the more pressure they can apply to government to pay for research. Heaven for these people is causing the long-awaited “breakout” into the hetero population. Contaminating the blood supply is part and parcel of this approach.
AIDS: The first 100% fatal disease that comes with legal protection.
Chasing the bug —they call it. The Law ought call it reckless endangerment— It seems the man who wrote what we call the Book of Romans in Chapter 1 verses 18-32 nailed it when he spoke of them receiving the recompense that is meet.The reward for their sin due.
Occupation: Plague rat.
They figure, “Why not? I’m going to die, so nothing to lose.”
They don’t care how they affect others, because it always was, and always will be, about themselves. They’re narcissists in the WORST sense of that expression.
Just responding so I can find this again. Do you know the name of the tribe?
Its been years since I saw the documentary.
Well, the gay “truth” is it’s inborn. Haven’t seen any studies that prove that, but if you say otherwise, you’re obviously a homophobe (another gay “truth”).
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