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Imran Siddiqui
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The Potterverse
Jan 1970
time: 00:32
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HIV rate jumps among US gays
There has been a big rise in the number of new HIV cases among gay men in the United States, a report says.
The latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed a 17% increase in new HIV cases among gay men between 1999 and 2002.
The figures cover 29 US states - not including New York, California and Washington DC.
"The fight is as urgent as it was 20 years ago," CDC director of HIV/Aids prevention Robert Janssen said.
'Treatable disease'
CDC officials say the report shows there is a need for new prevention strategies.
Earlier this year, the centre launched a campaign urging safe sex and discouraging needle-sharing, but Mr Janssen said that "prevention fatigue" had probably set in as many now regard HIV/AIDS as a "treatable disease".
The report, released ahead of World Aids Day on 1 December showed that overall, the number of men diagnosed with HIV between 1999 and 2002 had risen from 17,556 in 1999 to 18,843.
The Hispanic community showed the largest increase in HIV cases, at 26%, while HIV among whites increased by 8%.
The report showed there was no considerable increase in infection rates among African and Asian Americans, but black people account for 55% of all new HIV cases.
Mr Janssen noted that while HIV largely remains a black and Latino infection in the United States, the report indicates that lifestyle is more of an issue than ethnicity.
The report also found that although the number of Aids cases had been on the decline, between 1999-2002, the number of cases increased by 5.1%.
It is estimated that there are between 850,000 and 950,000 HIV-positive people in the United States. |
PREVENTION FATIGUE?! This is only your ****ing life we are talking about here!!
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Guynemer
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Simple.
It's been a generation since AIDS first emerged. A whole new generation of gays in late teen-years, who have the same delusions of invinsibility that all teenagers do.
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Dr Strangelove
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Actually for some time now there has been concern in the medical community over the increasing practice of "bare backing", i.e., anal sex without the use of condoms. As Boshko pointed out anti-retroviral therapy has made the disease seem less scary to many gays. There is also the problem that, let's face it, condoms decrease sexual pleasure for many people.
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Dr Strangelove
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In the very beginning, the late 1970s and early 1980s there were many people in the medical research community who were concerned that announcing the existence of this disease would lead to cries of discrimination in the gay community and/or increased homophobia among non-gays. That's why you didn't hear anything about the existence of AIDS until the virus had already been identified, even though the researchers working with it obviously already knew that the disease existed. That the disease was primarily transmitted sexually was pretty much evident by a study of its epidemiology.
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MrFun
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of Iowa
Nov 2000
time: 23:32
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Originally posted by Dissident
bathhouses?  |
It was part of the commercialized expression of the sexual liberation/revolution of the 1970s. I'm sure they existed before then, but bathouses seemed to have exploded in numbers in the 1970s.
Many gay leaders believed that those at the Cancer Development Center and other scientists were part of a conspiracy to renew social persecution of all gays by trying to regulate, if not shut down, bathouses as a way to prevent the spread of this new, strange disease.
There were other gay leaders on the other side, who advocated that gays needed to renounce the lifestyles that encouraged unsafe sex in light of this new disease. The emergence of the AIDS crisis had created a split in gay communities across the nation.
Raegan and other conservative politicians were too-straight-laced, ignorant, homophobic, or morally presumptuous to confront this new crisis in spite of the information that the Center for Disease Control, and other organizations had compiled early on.
And then you had the hemophiliac organizations in which most of the members wanted to pull the wool over their eyes, rather than admit to their deadly vulenerability to HIV/AIDS. They just did not want to acknowledge that they were being stricken by this "faggot" disease.
And then of course, you had medical officials in many cities who were too ignorant or homophobic to help other medical officials who actually wanted to take measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Last edited by MrFun on 01-12-2003 at 22:48
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Jon Miller
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we need to get gay unions or marriages legal now
monogamy among homosexuals needs to be socially supported
JOn Miller
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