Posted on 12/02/2004 6:06:42 AM PST by presidio9
The number of newly diagnosed HIV and AIDS cases among gay and bisexual men grew 11% in the four-year period ending in 2003, raising fears of a new outbreak of the disease in a group experts said had become increasingly casual about taking protective measures.
The increase was offset by a decline in new cases among intravenous drug users, so the overall rate increased by 1% over the same period, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Wednesday on World AIDS Day.
The CDC estimates that about 40,000 new HIV infections occur each year in the U.S., and that between 850,000 and 950,000 Americans are living with the disease, with about 280,000 not knowing they are infected, said Dr. Ronald O. Valdiserri, deputy director of the CDC's HIV prevention program. About 18,000 die of AIDS each year in the U.S.
The number of new infections has remained stable since the mid-1990s, when the burgeoning use of anti-HIV drugs lowered virus transmissions and death. But the mark is seen as a setback because the government had set the goal of cutting the rate of new infections in half by 2005.
"We have a ways to go before we reach [that] mark," Valdiserri said in a telephone briefing with reporters.
"It's simply unacceptable that so many people continue to be infected by this virus," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the CDC.
Men who have sex with men bore the initial brunt of the AIDS epidemic and account for 44% of newly diagnosed cases, according to the new data. But complacency brought on by effective AIDS drugs and the time that had elapsed since the initial ravages of the epidemic had led to an increase in unsafe sex practices, officials said.
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"One out of every 10 gay men has HIV or AIDS..."
Only one?
bump for later reading.
And they will call evil, good, and good, evil.....
The number of newly diagnosed HIV and AIDS cases among gay and bisexual men grew
Thats redundant isn't it? Gay and Bisexual men? why not just say Gay and slightly less gay men.
In the liberal mind, consequences can never be tied to behavior. The consequences of their behavior is always someone else's fault, preferably society's. Confronting them with that fact gives them conniption fits. It's funny to watch though.
Syphilis Relapse: Cases soar in New York City (gay men ushering in disease’s resurgence)
Anal herpes is the ugliest disease that I have ever seen.
Yawn.
You've seen it?
I don't even want to think about it. Lalalalalalalala.
I am glad to say, that in all my years, I have been fortunate not to have seen it.
There are too many other things that I had seen, that I don't even want to think about it. Gives me the creeps.
Highlandbreeze, where are you in the Medical Food Chain?
No where as of late.
Last job I held was burns and trauma, there isn't a lot of this other stuff on those units.
Well, it looks like we will just have to "raise awareness."
That'll cure the AIDS problem.
"---and if we'd quit subsidizing them through Medicare and assorted state welfare programs, the problem would solve itself -by death--"
That was the approach they took in Africa for many years. It doesn't seem to have worked there.
There is, however, a nasty little secret in the gay community, and its called (at least I think this is the name) the 'contraction' party. What is it? Its a small group of gay men who, believing they will get AIDS no matter what, get together with other gay men with AIDS and have unprotected sex with as many positive men as possible to purposely contract the disease. Even a show like Queer as Folk had a story arc about this very thing.
Anyone who purposely gives this disease to another, or willing wants to get it, deserves nothing but contempt. This is not a disease that should be glamorized.
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