Posted on 10/01/2014 3:11:39 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) make up 2 percent of the U.S. population but are the group most definitively affected by HIV, with 63 percent of those newly infected by HIV representing this group.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly “Morbidity and Mortality” report shows that among persons newly infected with HIV in 2010, 63 percent were men who have sex with other men. Among Americans living with HIV, 52 percent were MSM – and a significant number of men with HIV are not receiving treatment.
“Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately 2 percent of the United States population, yet are the risk group most affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),” reads the Sept. 26 CDC report. “Most gay and bisexual men acquire HIV through anal sex, which is the riskiest type of sex for getting or transmitting HIV.
“Having more sex partners compared to other men means gay and bisexual men have more opportunities to have sex with someone who can transmit HIV or another STD. Similarly, among gay men, those who have more partners are more likely to acquire HIV.”
Just one in two gay or bisexual men who have been diagnosed with HIV receives treatment for the virus, and only 42 percent had achieved viral suppression.
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Perhaps people are lying to the CDC about their sexual preferences?
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AIDS is so homophobic!
“So how did the other 48% get infected by HIV?”
Needles, IV drugs. Sex with bisexuals.
Are gay/bi men really 2% of the adult population?
So 1 out of every 25 men is gay?
How come I know only 1?
I am guessing that the initials (MSM) in the article refer to the same MSM I am used to seeing referenced here on FR!
The survival of the fittest. Nature has a way of dealing with aberrancies that consume resources but do no procreate.
I don’t know any!
2% = 1 in 50, not 1 in 25.
2% is one out of 50....
Of course that was before Common Core math...
Half of adults are female, right?
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I really thought it was a higher percentage of the population that was gay - wow.
Sharing needles and/or men who take their recreation wherever they can get it, thus passing the disease to women.
So why do the 98 % have to bake them a damn cake?
That's what the MSM and the LGBT agitators want us to believe.
Most individuals who embrace the concept of same-sex physical gratification are of self-destructive tendencies anyway, so this just speeds things along a little.
For being “gay”, some of these people are the saddest and most morose of human beings. Perhaps that sobriquet was endowed satirically?
Really, you don’t know anyone who is gay?
LOLOLOL! My thoughts, exactly!
I wonder if they are counting all other forms of weird - like cross dressers or transgendered (which still bothers me because it doesn’t mean they are in the process of changing, just that they want to be the opposite sex) - obviously this 2% is men, and I assume another 2% is female
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