But you're wrong
In 2002, there were 31,089 incident AIDS cases, and 4,937 of them arose from heterosexual transmission.
That's 15%.
Dear God, I should certainly hope so! Gay men make up 1.5% of our population. It would be statistically impossible for them to make up the majority of all new AIDs cases. Especially since so many are infected already.
Average life expectancy of a gay man in the US: 42.
Sorry...nice try though
Don't make any more attempts at sarcasm. You have yet to master the concept.
Oh? And just how did these new cases come to be? And how did this virus originate, and spread into the straight community?
You might want to actually start ANSWERING some of the questions being asked of you before you even think of acting like some sanctimonious liberal.
I believe the current statistics show that the greatest number of new cases of these diseases are among straight people.
"The reality is that the major causes of AIDS were, and continue to be, men having sex with men and people injecting themselves with drugs. In that order. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in 2001 fewer than 10,000 Americans contracted AIDS through heterosexual contact.
The total number of annual AIDS cases in the U.S. has declined significantly, particularly between 1995 and 1998. So have the number of unfortunates who’ve died from the malady.
Even in America, however, all the news isn’t so encouraging. Last month a CDC official reported a significant jump in the number of AIDS cases among homosexual men...
Federal dollars for AIDS are no exception. $100,000 was used to pay for a "drag queens’ ball" in New Jersey. $200,000 from one federally funded group was used for workshops described by a pro-homosexual newspaper as "hot, horny and healthy..."
"The study, which appears in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health, involved a national sample of 606 gay and bisexual men, 287 heterosexual men, and 504 heterosexual women who were all HIV-positive and asked them about their sexual activity and disclosure practices over the last six months.
Researchers say the rates of sexual contact without disclosure of HIV-positive status found in the sample translates to 43,500 gay or bisexual men, 8,000 heterosexual men, and 7,500 women nationwide, all infected with HIV, who are engaging in sex without informing their partner of their HIV-positive status.
In addition, researchers say that because rates of HIV are higher among the homosexual community, some HIV-positive individuals may assume that sexual partners are aware of the risk of HIV transmission even if they don't disclose their HIV status..."
Risky sex strongest predictor of HIV
"Incidence of HIV among males 18 and older who said they had injected drugs and had engaged in homosexual activity within the previous six months was 10.4 percent per year. That was more than three times the infection rate (3.0 percent) for men who did not report having homosexual sex..."
New study: homosexual men promiscuous - 42.9% in Chicago Shoreland Area had 60 partners
Young gay, bisexual men still hard hit by AIDS
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28 people in a 92-strong gay orgy proved to be HIV-positive