Posted on 05/18/2016 4:44:51 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A map documenting HIV rates for gay and bisexual men has revealed they are most at risk for becoming infected in multiple southern cities, according to a report being presented today by Emory University researchers.
The cities with the highest rates included Columbia, South Carolina, El Paso, Texas, and Jackson, Mississippi. In these cities, more than 25 percent of men who have sex with men (MSM) had been diagnosed with HIV.
“This is really the first time we’ve been able to examine the HIV infection burden ... at such fine levels of geography,” Eli Rosenberg, assistant professor of epidemiology at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, said during a news conference today.
According to the report, the South is home to 21 of the 25 metropolitan areas with the highest HIV prevalence among MSM. The analysis provides “new evidence” of a growing disparity between the HIV epidemic in the South relative to the rest of the U.S. -- but it is unclear whether this says more about rising transmission rates in the South, or public health successes in other regions.
Overall, gay and bisexual men are more than 57 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than other men in the U.S., the study authors said.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
whatever happened to media fears of “heterosexual aids”?
“he played on our fears” - Dem. candidate Al Gore Junior
May they all f**** themselves into extinction...: )
http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2016/croi-press-release-risk.html
“Lifetime Risk of HIV Diagnosis - Half of black gay men and a quarter of Latino gay men projected to be diagnosed within their lifetime”
According to liberals, encouraging and celebrating all romantic preferences is the loving response, even when half of gay black men will contract a fatal disease by following that loving example. Acting like a conservative Christian and expressing concern over choices that carry a 25% to 50% mortality rate - that is hateful under liberal standards.
The likelihood of contracting the disease increases the longer risky behavior is practiced. The article doesn’t make it clear: perhaps practitioners just manage to live longer in the southern cities.
If M would just stop having SM, this would be a non-issue.
AIDS is not related to geography.
It’s related to homos.
Where’s my grant?
Yah. In other news, scientists released a study that found that water is actually wet.
A white woman dating a black man in Jackson, Mississippi, has a better chance at Russian Roulette of survival. It escapes logic.
Howzabout a PSA?
“”we’ve been able to examine the HIV infection burden””
Apparently a “burden” willingly sought!
Duh. When this disease was first noticed, it was called gay-related immune deficiency. It has since become a politically-protected disease, but its name was changed so a stupid public wouldn’t think it was spread by activities that our bodies aren’t made for.
BINGO!
This should have been the headline:
"Overall, gay and bisexual men are more than 57 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than other men in the U.S"
But let them donate blood to the rest of the normal population...
Can you imagine how cheap health insurance would be for the rest of us if insurance companies were allowed to charge increased rates for higher risk groups, like gay men, like they now do for smokers?
“Come on everybody we’ve got quilting to do.”
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