[Armen Hareyan]

Amid so much negativity in our society, seeing something improving is a welcome news.

[A_Former_Democrat]

The most telling statement in the article:

The researchers said HIV diagnosis continues to increase among men who have sex with other men - especially young men age 13 to 24. HIV increased 132.5 percent among younger men.

But hey, it’s just another lifestyle, boyz

[molson209]

The Illegals will fix that

[Hogblog]

Guess the barebacking stuff isn’t so good...... who would have thought.....

[ilovesarah2012]

If men would stop putting their penises into other men’s rectums, I think we would see a further reduction in the transmission of AIDS.

[Old Yeller]

That’ll change when homos become blood donors.

[Jack Hammer]

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

HIV is increasing, both statistically and numerically, in the core population - homosexual males.

[Darteaus94025]

Sorry, but the stat is often misleading. This stat is the rate of diagnosis, i.e. rate of new cases.

Suppose a virus spread into a population as follows:
Year 1: 5% of total population infected
Year 2: 10% - 100% increase
Year 3: 20% - 100% increase
Year 4: 30% - 50% increase
Year 5: 40% - 33% increase

You should notice that as the same number of the total population continues to be infected, the rate of increase is declining.

I don't know if that's what's happening here, but beware of someone who leads with the stat that the "rate of increase" is slowing since the spread of disease continues - and THAT is the thing to watch.

[Scoutmaster]

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association and WebMD, the rate of HIV has gone down from 2002 to 2011 for every group except . . . gay and bisexual males.

Drug addicts? Down 70%.

A random group of 500,000? Down by 33%.

Women? Down approximately 50%

Males? Down more than 25%

Blacks? Down 37%

Hispanics? Down 42%

Male/female transmission? Down 33%

Male homosexuals and bisexuals? UP 133%.

[DaxtonBrown]

“A March 2013 study also show HIV infected individuals who are treated optimally are at no higher risk of dying than the general population. “

Thus allowing new generations of potent viral loads to evolve.