[Remedy]

O'Reilly seems blind to the detrimental effects of the gay lifestyle

CBS News | AIDS: Deadly Ignorance | July 8, 2002 23:22:37

BARCELONA, Spain, July 8, 2002
(AP) A study of young gay and bisexual men in major U.S. cities found that more than three-quarters of those infected with HIV - including 91 percent of blacks - were unaware they had the AIDS virus.

The finding, presented Monday during the first day of scientific sessions at the 14th International AIDS Conference, is a worrying sign that the epidemic could be in danger of accelerating again in the United States.

The study indicated that ignorance of infection among HIV positive gay and bisexual men was twice as common as previous estimates, which were based on HIV tests results of people entering the military or jobs that require screening.

The survey, conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "helps explain, at least in part, why many young gay and bisexual men in the United States are becoming infected," said Duncan MacKellar, who led the study.

Researchers surveyed 5,719 men aged 15 to 29 at dance clubs, bars, health clubs and street locations in Baltimore, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Seattle from 1994 to 2000.

Of the 573 who tested HIV positive, 440 - or 77 percent - had not known they were infected with the virus. Around half of those men hadn't been tested in the past year and half were having anal sex without condoms, said MacKellar.

Another CDC study presented at the conference, which examined anonymous blood samples of 40,000 high-risk patients of all ages, found that the rate of new infections for gay and bisexual men was nine times higher than for women and heterosexual men.

Other CDC research linked psychosocial health problems such as depression and drug abuse to higher HIV infection rates and large age gaps within homosexual couples to a higher propensity to engage in risky sexual behavior.

[First Amendment]

Remedy - I don't know how you do it - I wish I had 4 hours a day to read FR. Yours are the best!!!

Plus - after that Bennet interview, I don't read/listen to/watch/pay attention to O'Reilly anymore.

[saradippity]

Thanks for all the great factual information you have posted. In these days where everybody works all day and comes home to piles of mail to deal with, followed by sorting and packaging and disposing of trash,waste,and wet, as opposed to dry garbage,it is almost impossible for the average person to keep apprised of the things that matter most.

I just wonder how this critical information can get conveyed to the public to counteract the fantasies the media have concocted presenting the "gays" and their lifestyles as harmless,poignant and/or desireable. Any ideas?