“It’s really important to say that these [projections] are not inevitable. This is a call to do things differently.”Yes, obviously; stop having anal sex!
-- Carl Sciortino, executive director of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts
For background, read Anal Sex is Main Cause of HIV Pandemic, Study Shows
Also read Federal Government Blames Homosexual Men for Sex Disease Epidemic and point out that Homosexual Men are a Huge HIV Risk
-- From "Gay or Bisexual Black Men Have 50 Percent Risk of HIV" by Maggie Fox, NBC News 2/23/16
The report, released at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, is the first to take a look at any given person's lifetime risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.
"At current rates, 1 in 2 African American men who have sex with men (MSM) and 1 in 4 Hispanic MSM will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime, compared with 1 in 11 white MSM," CDC said.
The CDC has been warning for years that people most at risk of HIV are not getting tested for it nearly often enough. . . .
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From "Half of black gay men will be infected with HIV, CDC finds" by Felice J. Freyer, Boston Globe Staff 2/23/16
The findings present a stark reminder of the threat still posed by the AIDS virus 35 years after the illness was first detected, despite progress in treatment and prevention.
“It was really a clarion call,” said Dawn Fukuda, director of the HIV/AIDS division at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, who heard the report presented at the international Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston. “These are numbers that are pretty astounding.”
The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the first to project the lifetime risk of HIV infection state-by-state and among certain groups of people. Based on death data from 2009 through 2013, the CDC concluded that gay and bisexual men, African-Americans, and people who live in the South have the highest risk of infection.
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Click headlines below to read previous articles:
Federal CDC Admits Failure: Carefree 'Safe Sex' is NOT Possible
CDC Report Shows Most HIV Homosexual Men Have Unprotected Sex
The Only 'Safe Gays' are Celibate Gays, Says U.S. FDA
Soaring Syphilis Rates Among Homosexual Men Point to HIV Risk
Another Sex Disease Untreatable: 'Super Gonorrhea'
New Sex Disease, Worse than HIV/AIDS
New Gay Health Risk: Meningococcal Disease
