U.S. Federal Funding for HIV/AIDS: Trends Over Time.. $43.0 billion in FY 2022 [virtually preventable disease, + while would the reaction be if a consensual Christian practice resulted in this?]

The federal HIV budget can be organized into five broad categories: care & treatment; cash & housing assistance; prevention; research; and global/international. More than two-thirds (67%) of the FY 2022 budget was for domestic care and treatment programs in the U.S.; 8% was for domestic cash/housing assistance; 3% was for domestic HIV prevention; 6% was for domestic HIV research; and 16% was for the global HIV efforts, including funding for international research.

. In FY 2022, mandatory spending for HIV accounted for $27.2 billion, or 63%, of the total HIV budget and includes estimated spending levels for: Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), programs which provide health coverage and cash assistance. Mandatory spending has accounted for an increasing share of federal funding for HIV, rising from 52% of total HIV funding in FY 2012 to 63% in FY 2022, largely due to growth in Medicare and Medicaid spending...

Discretionary funding levels are determined by Congress each year through the appropriations process and may, or may not, match the full need for or cost of services.

Although only approximately 7% of adult and adolescent males reported having had male-to-male sexual contact at some point in their lives 81% of HIV infections among males in 2019 were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact. and over 80% HIV infection among adolescent and young adult males (85%) in 2019, and over 63% of all [not just men] new HIV diagnoses. Overall, homosexual relations has  (historically) resulted in a greatly increased incidence of other infectious diseases  and effects besides HIV, from Meningitis to  premature death. Which diseases includes Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis A and B, HPV, Syphilis, HIV to Meningitis and body dysmorphia and eating disorders and recently Monkey pox. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men have accounted for 83% of primary and secondary syphilis cases where sex of sex partner was known in the US. Goy, Bisexual and other men who have sex with men have been found to be 17 times more likely to get anal cancer than heterosexual  men. Which costs this nation greatly in lives, souls - and money, with the latter alone resulting in billions spent per year due to STD's, with domestic response to HIV itself rising to more than $28 billion per year (2024). And thus (as of 2024 compilation) sodomy has been primarily responsible for close to 800,000 American deaths, and yet all the above is not the decisive reason why homosexual relations are wrong.
In 2019, male fornication with men (sodomy) was responsible for 81% of new HIV cases among among adolescents and young adult men:
(https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2018-updated-vol-32.pdf; https://web.archive.org/web/20221110213233if_/https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/library/reports/hiv-surveillance/vol-32/cdc-hiv-surveillance-vol32-fig30-1000x856.png?_=05943, p. 34)
While the CDC states that,
"Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) are the population most affected by HIV in the United States. Stigma, homophobia, and discrimination make MSM of all races/ethnicities susceptible to multiple physical and mental health problems,"
the means of HIV transmission is almost always due to volitional actions, which cannot be blamed on discrimination, while billions are spent on this communicable disease via a chosen practice.Although only approximately 7% of adult and adolescent males reported having had male-to-male sexual contact at some point in their lives, 82% of HIV infections among [all classes of] males in 2018 were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact. (CDC: Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the United States, 2015–2019 P. 7)
In 2019, diagnoses of HIV infection among adolescent and young adult males (85%) and females (12%) accounted for approximately 97% of HIV diagnoses (Table 8b). (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2018-updated-vol-32.pdf)
And in 2018:
(from https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/group/age/youth/cdc-hiv-youth.pdf)
In 2018 92% of NEW HIV infections among men aged 13 to 24 was attributed to male-to-male sexual contact:
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/age/youth/cdc-hiv-youth-sex-700x698.png

For 2018, the CDC reported as concerns male youth:    https://web.archive.org/web/20190807143141im_/https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/age/youth/Piecharts-03-large.png)
In addition are CDC stats that also include many STDs, which mainly are a result of heterosexual fornication.
In 2021 the CDC estimated that 1 in 5 people in the U.S. have a sexually transmitted infection and at a cost to the U.S. healthcare system of billions of dollars annually. (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0125-sexualy-transmitted-infection.html)

The CDC study Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2014 found that among male cases for whom the sex of the  partner was known, 83% of syphilis cases were MSM. 75.53% of syphilis cases in 2014 were among homosexual men. 51% of the homosexual men diagnosed with syphilis in 2014 were also HIV-positive. (https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/cdc-83-syphilis-cases-2014-among-gay-men-where-sex-sex-partner-was)

Among women, studies have shown that viral STD rates among bisexual-identifying women aged 15 to 44 years were almost three times higher than women who have sex with women exclusively.  (https://www.stdcheck.com/blog/lgbt-std-statistics)

2021 saw a 26% rise in new syphilis cases, with the rate of syphilis cases reaching its highest since 1991, and with the total number of cases achieving its highest number since 1948, while HIV cases were up 16% in 2021. (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/19/sexually-transmitted-disease-rise-syphilis-us?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1)

And a  new CDC report provides final surveillance data for 2021, and shows that overall in a single year (2020-2021) syphilis rates increased nearly 32% for combined stages of the infection. Cases of congenital syphilis rose by an alarming 32% and resulted in 220 stillbirths and infant deaths.

As regards related behavioral patterns, a recent (2024) CDC report which includes survey data from National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Transgender Women (NHBS-Trans) conducted by CDC during June 2019–February 2020 to assess behavioral risk factors, PrEP, antiretroviral therapy, condom use, and HIV prevalence, found that,
In addition to which are the ongoing financial costs:

The United States is expected to spend more than $26 billion annually on HIV. (https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/facts-statistics-infographic)

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Much more.
God made man and women distinctively different yet uniquely compatible and complementary, and only joined them together in marriage - as the Lord Jesus Himself specified (Mt. 19:4–6) - and Scripture only condemns homosexual relations wherever they are manifestly dealt with.
And homosexual relations have been tragically primarily responsible for approx. 80% of new HIV cases among men and over 700,000 American deaths, though such is not even the decisive reason why homosexual relations are wrong.
Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47

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