Posted on 08/12/2003 9:17:08 PM PDT by scripter
(AgapePress) - Researchers are warning of an HIV outbreak on college campuses in North Carolina.
A study conducted by the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services indicates that up to 60 college students in the state may have become infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The study found that 25 male college students in a three-county region of North Carolina have been diagnosed with HIV since 2001, and nearly 90% of those students were black men whose infections resulted from homosexual sex.
Lead researcher Dr. Lisa Hightow, a fellow in infectious diseases at the UNC School of Medicine, says half of all new HIV infections occur in young people.
"We feel that this is a wakeup call to the fact that HIV is still being actively transmitted and that it's involving our young people in our state. We feel that this is certainly statewide, but not necessarily limited to the state," she says.
According to Hightow, up until this year, no reports on HIV infection rates at colleges had been published. The researcher says she and her colleagues are consulting with experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and have been working to improve prevention efforts.
"We alerted all the key health department personnel as well as all the campuses, and have started to expand our counseling and testing activities on the campuses," Hightow says. "Many of the colleges and universities that we have been working with have begun to increase student awareness of HIV."
Hightow notes that many of the students in North Carolina who were recently infected with HIV had used the drug Ecstasy and met their homosexual partners over the Internet.
At the beginning of last year, the CDC reported approximately 362,827 persons in the United States living with AIDS. Of these, 42% were whites, 37% were blacks, 20% were Hispanics, less than 1% were Asians and Pacific Islanders, and less than 1% were American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Of the 282,250 men (13 years or older) living with AIDS, 57% were men who had homosexual sex, 24% were intravenous drug users, and 9% were exposed through heterosexual contact. Of the 76,696 adult and adolescent women with AIDS, 59% were exposed through heterosexual contact and 38% were exposed through intravenous drug use. And according to the CDC, at the end of 2001 there were 3,817 children living with AIDS in America.*
Your statements are just silly. To focus on the miniscule number of people who get AIDS due to needle sharing and/or transfusions is to promote the disease by not trying to stop the main cause of it. That being the decision to have a homosexual lifestyle.
I didn't realize that anyone still thought this way.
A good deal of heart disease is self inflicted. Scratch research on that too.
Hey, works great for me.
And I didn't realize anyone still didn't think that way.
My ol' buddy sakic. Still liberalin' up the joint, I see.
"Gets going?" This thing has been going, and one fact remains, almost every single person who gets HIV is infected by a person who engages in homosexual behavior. The next largest group infected are IV drug users. The next group most likely to be infected are people who have sex with IV drug users. The only innocent people who get this disease are the babies who are infected by their mothers.
What's pompous about that attitude? Despite all the evidence indicating they live a high-risk situation, homosexuals continue to engage in their deviant behavior. What more do you want us to do? Buy them all chastity belts?
If I had three children in college - I would be worried. Are they having sex with any person that was ever exposed sexually or through exposure to bodily fluids with an HIV+ person? If not, how do they know? Have their partners been tested? If not, they are taking a chance.
The reason you would be worried is because you would have taught your children that sexual promiscuity is a fact of life. You would have taught your children that homosexuality is acceptable. I raised mine better than that. I am not worried.
I am through with this discussion. I have tried to advise that our young people are in danger - gay or not. I have tried to advise that the desire to cast blame instead of finding solutions to protect all members of society is denying the danger of infection, and turning the problem into only a "gay" problem - all others are safe and should not be concerned.
You are through with the discussion because you have no further salient arguing points. "Our" young people are not in danger. "Your" young people, who have been raised in a permissive and promiscuous environment are in danger. I can't tell you how sad that makes me, but I also seem to be unable to do anything about it since you and your fellow guardians of PC and diversity are disinclined to hear the truth.
The whole tone of this thread has been who causes it and if we can make them stop their activities there would be no problem. Ok, make them stop sexual activities. We'll give you - oh maybe two years to get it stopped before we worry about anyone we know coming into danger. Until then, don't bother teaching your young that they can get exposed to HIV through sex with their partner who just might be HIV+.
You're missing the point. Most on this thread have no question as to the cause of the problem. It is only you and a few others who seem to be confused. What most on this thread decry is the inordinate amount of time and money being spent on dealing with a very small problem that does not affect the vast majority of the population who find homosexuality and IV drug use abnormal and unacceptable.
Now make all sexual activity stop between gays - we are waiting......waiting.....waiting... Now make all sexual activity stop among our young people - we are waiting....waiting....waiting.
No need. HIV will eventually achieve that result
Name one.
I know that a major sports figure had to retire from sports because he was HIV positive and was a danger to his teammates.
Or was he simply a percieved threat due to propaganda like the type of propaganda you are attempting to spread here? Name a single case of HIV caused by playing basketball with an HIV positive person.
I can name hundreds of instances of aids being caught by those not involved with anal sex or gay relationships.
You will only be believable if these cases involve IV drug use or babies born to people who are infected.
You sir, are a complete SOB. You are not the reason I love and value FR and you are a discredit to FR. Your hateful attitude, total disregard for others is apparent.
I am highly offended by your comments saying I would raise my children believing free sex is inherent. You don't know me. I am a Christian and raised my family with Christian values - yet - that does not stop the dangers of our society rife with destruction of morals.
Any person that would make your comment above is not worth discussing anything with. How many people have you hurt with comments like that? Of course, your rationalization is - "well, it will make them wake up and change their behavior".
You - sir - do not know how many parents out there are losing children due to HIV+ thriving in our society. You chose to think let them die off - I am not involved. Great - you are one of the blessed ones. Many are not blessed and I will never - ever - say anything like they deserve to die. Maybe some blatant unresponsible selfish people do - but while they are being blatant, unresponsible and selfish, they are infecting other people in our society.
No matter what you people claim - AIDS does spread and you are creating a false sense of security with your ill-informed, naive belief that all heterosexuals are safe and only gays get the disease and they deserve it.
Now - one more time - how long do you think you will need to get the gay society to quit having sex whether you like it or not? How long before there are no more teenagers getting pregnant? How long before there are no more hormone raging, stupid, naive, sexually confused teenagers dealing with problems they are not equipped to handle (or any equipped to handle) and getting infected with HIV? Of course all of these teenagers make sure their parents do not find out what is really going on.
Because I see the truth that my entire life I have heard of unwed mothers, generation after generation, I understand that people have not listened to others telling them to abstain when in the heat of the moment and because telling gays to abstain from homosexual interests when they find no interest in heterosexual relationships is proving very unsuccessful - I am portrayed as raising a family believing they can and should practice all of the above.
Are you telling me no other parent sees the above events? Just because I see history does not mean I change my value system and teach what history has shown does happen.
A parent can talk until they are blue in the face and yet - their daughter may come up pregnant. Most people understand this - apparently you chose to live a very sheltered life unaware of what is out there in life.
I hope that you do not have to face the day your teenager comes and tells you they are HIV+.
Don't bother answering this post.
Exactly my point - I am worried about the young immature ones. They do not deserve to die.
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