This guy doesn't seem too pleasant. I can understand why he can't have sex while facing another person.
Posted on 07/28/2003 7:52:55 AM PDT by presidio9
The number of gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV (news - web sites), the virus that causes AIDS (news - web sites), climbed for the third consecutive year in the United States in 2002, fueling fears that the disease might be poised for a major comeback in this high-risk group.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites), which reported the finding on Monday at the 2003 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, also revealed that AIDS diagnoses overall had risen 2.2 percent to 42,136 last year.
"The AIDS epidemic in the United States is far from over," said Dr. Harold Jaffe, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention.
An estimated 850,000 to 950,000 Americans have the AIDS virus. AIDS killed 16,371 people across the nation last year, about 6 percent fewer than in 2001, according to the CDC.
Although U.S. health officials have been preaching HIV prevention to all Americans, they have become particularly concerned in recent years by an apparent resurgence of infections among gay and bisexual males.
HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men surged 7.1 percent last year, according to data collected by the CDC from 25 states that have long-standing HIV reporting. New diagnoses in this high-risk group have increased 17.7 percent since 1999, while remaining stable in other vulnerable communities.
Jaffe cautioned, however, that the jump in HIV diagnoses could have been caused by increases in the number of gay and bisexual males being tested for the virus and was not proof that this group was being infected at a faster rate.
STANDARD TESTS
Standard HIV tests cannot tell when a person was infected with the virus, leaving open the possibility that HIV was contracted many years before being detected.
That could change in the coming months as the CDC implements a new HIV tracking system, which is based on a blood test that it says can determine whether a person had been infected with HIV in the previous six months.
CDC officials said the new surveillance strategy, was prompted by a need for more precise data on HIV infections and trends. About 40,000 new HIV infections are reported in the nation each year.
Since the AIDS virus first surfaced in 1981, estimates of new HIV cases have been based on the predictable length of time -- usually 10 years -- that elapsed between an initial infection and the onset of AIDS symptoms.
But the development of antiretroviral drugs has slowed the progression of AIDS and made it more difficult to predict when a person contracted HIV.
"It will provide us timely information on HIV transmission that is occurring now," said Dr. Robert Janssen, who directs HIV prevention programs at the Atlanta-based agency.
"What it will do is allow us to target our prevention programs to those areas and populations among whom HIV is being currently transmitted," Janssen added.
The CDC plans to have the system in place in 35 areas that account for 93 percent of annual HIV infections by 2004. The agency has allocated $13 million in supplemental funding to state health departments for the program in fiscal 2004.
This guy doesn't seem too pleasant. I can understand why he can't have sex while facing another person.
Lincoln shared his bed with another man in his salad days. It wasn't all that uncommon back then, people were poor and beds were scarce. Thus the " Log Cabin Republicans".
They claim Lincoln is gay, but they claim that a lot of people are gay. Heck, they even say that Liberace was gay, but how could he be? All the women loved him.
Define "fail badly". I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
While the analogy may be faulty, Lady Lawyer openly said that the world would be better without homosexuals. Hitler thought likewise. Hitler tried to accomplish that. Lady Lawyer is only cheering it on.
Certainly there is a huge difference between committing genocide and rooting for it but I still find Lady Lawyer's wish to be immoral and disgusting.
" ... to the extent that the gay lobby is involved in passing thought-crime laws, compromising institutions upon which society is built, and costing millions in misdirected research funds because of the idiocy of political correctness ... "
LOL
No. But then you knew I didn't mean that.
If, miraculously, all the homosexuals disappeared they wouldn't be missed.
Some (probably club members) attempt to point out all the good homosexuals have done for society and attempt to classify them as another race of people. That is patently ridiculous.
If, miraculously, all the fat people disappeared would they be missed?
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