[blanknoone]

It isn't the largest growing group, but it is the FASTEST growing group. Apparently significant numbers of black man are 'on the down low' and serving as an AIDS vector into the hetero black community.

It used to be that essentially no non-IV-drug using black women got AIDS. Now some are getting it from sexual contact. A moderate number of cases on a very small base = Fastest growth.

[Kakaze]

Heres the link to the article on Black transmissions of aids.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075607/posts
AIDS Rising in Black Male College Students

[G L Tirebiter]

It isn't the largest growing group, but it is the FASTEST growing group. Apparently significant numbers of black man are 'on the down low' and serving as an AIDS vector into the hetero black community.

Correct. The Atlanta paper ran a lengthy piece a couple of weeks ago outlining the rapid growth of HIV amongst black male college students in North Carolina. Public health officials there have been tracking blood test results for several years and there is a clear upward trend to the HIV numbers.

Almost all of the infections are attributed to homo/bi sexual behavior. And the bi's are the vector for their lady friends.

An interesting side note to the article: When it came time to say "who's to blame" the author found people who pointed to the federal gov't (not enough $$, free condoms, too much emphasis on abstinence, etc.) and to conservative black clergy whose attitudes keep homosexual black men in the closet.

Nary a mention of personal responsibility.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Apparently significant numbers of black man are 'on the down low' and serving as an AIDS vector into the hetero black community.

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This may be true, but your "vector into the community" wrongly implies that once it gets into the hetero community, it will spread readily. It won't, and that is because even if the small number of women who defy the odds by becoming infected then start up with other male partners, it is essentially impossible for those men to become infected unless they have open genital sores. The only ones affected are those women who sleep with bisexuals or who sleep with IV abusers.