Report finds black gay males in US worst hit by HIV-AIDS

AFP ^ | July 18, 2012 | Robert MacPherson

[Free ThinkerNY]

HIV-AIDS is affecting black gay men in the United States on a scale unseen among any other group in the developed world, said a report issued Wednesday ahead of the International AIDS Conference.

So grave is the crisis that in some US cities, one in two black men who have sex with other men are HIV positive, according to the report from the Black AIDS Institute, the only national HIV-AIDS think tank focusing on African Americans.

"AIDS in America is a black disease, no matter how you look at it," its president and chief executive Phill Wilson, who is himself HIV positive, said ahead of Sunday's opening of the six-day global conference.

"The best lens through which to figure out what AIDS looks like in America is to look at AIDS in black America," he said in an interview, adding that it was time to "jump-start a new conversation... and build a robust response" to the crisis.

[nomad]

Standard precautions, wear a condom, idiots!

[Manta]

NO THE REGEAN TAX CUTS

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

No joke. The one-in-a-billion happening can hit anybody at any time, but NOT doing the illicit sex with strangers and NOT shooting drugs radically drops your chances of getting HIV.

Back in the 80s and early 90s, the liberal media was grabbing any hetero non-druggie they could with AIDS to say, "See!! See!! Anybody can get it!!!" That dog just won't hunt.