HIV Resurges in men who have sex with men

[Christians4LessGvt]

HIV resurges in men who have sex with men

June. 26, 2008

Cases climb 12 percent among group of U.S. boys and men ages 13 to 24
A new analysis of HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men points to a troubling increase in new cases among young men, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.

Public health experts use the term "men who have sex with men," or MSM, because many of these men are not strictly homosexual or even bisexual.

Between 2001 and 2006, male-to-male sex was the largest HIV transmission category in the U.S., and the only one associated with an increasing number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses, according to a report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The jump was highest ? an increase of 12.4 percent ? among boys and men between the ages of 13 and 24 years who had sex with other males, particularly among ethnic minorities.

"To reduce transmission of HIV among MSM of all races/ethnicities, prevention strategies should be strengthened, improved, and implemented more broadly," CDC health officials wrote in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Testing is important, they add, because "after persons become aware that they are HIV positive, most reduce their high-risk sexual behavior."

The report describes trends in diagnoses of HIV/AIDS in 33 states that have confidential, name-based HIV case reporting.

Of 214,379 diagnoses during the study period, 46 percent were among MSM. The rate of new diagnoses declined in all other transmission categories ? injection drug use, high-risk heterosexual contact, and other routes of transmission.

Among all MSM, the estimated annual percentage change was 1.5 percent, the great majority of which involved the 13 to 24 year age group.

Among racial/ethnic groups, the annual increase in the number of diagnoses among MSM was highest among Asian/Pacific Islanders at 12.1 percent, followed by a 3.6 percent rate among American Indians/Alaska Natives; however, these two groups accounted for fewer than 1 percent of all diagnoses made during the study period. The annual increase was 1.9 percent among both African Americans and Hispanics, and 0.7 percent among Caucasians.

In MSM younger than age 25, African Americans bore the greatest burden with 7,658 new diagnoses (annual rate of change of 15 percent), followed by 3,221 new cases among Caucasians (9 percent annual increase) and 2,422 new cases among Hispanics (8 percent).

June 27 is National HIV Testing Day. To address the disproportionately high rate of HIV infection among blacks, the CDC has increased the number of testing sites in 23 geographic areas with the largest number of HIV cases. A list of testing sites is available at www.hivtest.org.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25398121/

[Xavier_Onassis]

If we would do away with gay marriage, all this would disappear as if by magic, right, unitedchristians?

Or should we stone them? The Bible says we should...

[Plane]

Actually Manogomy might reduce transmission , but God not liking it is a bigger problem than merely dieing of it.

[kimba1]

tricky
in a way it because thier gay is the reason of the outbreak
but actualy it`s because men in general(gay ot straight) likes having unprotected sex
the core problem isn`t homosexuality it`s guy`s can`t can`t keep it in thier pants.
I know ,In my youth I was no different.
it really is a miracle I`m alive.
I got the knife scars to prove it.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Actually Manogomy might reduce transmission , but God not liking it is a bigger problem than merely dieing of it.

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You mean monogamy. It certainly would reduce transmission, but only in the case of sex where there is one or more men involved.

The Judeo-Christian iteration of God is said to not like homosexuals, but then one can ask, why did he make them in the first place. Supposedly he also knew that there would be homos coupling, and even how many times and where and when, if we accept the interesting notion that God knows everything.

This calls to mind the image of Mattel punishing Barbie dolls.

[Amianthus]

You mean monogamy. It certainly would reduce transmission, but only in the case of sex where there is one or man involved.

What is an "or man"?

[Xavier_Onassis]

What is an "or man"?

"one or more men". There, I changed it. Excuse any confusion.
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Because of the way women are designed, it is practically impossible for one woman to pass it to her Lesbian lover.

I think we could draw the conclusion from this that if we assume that God created AIDS as punishment, then he did not intend it to be for punishing gay women

If God did not create AIDS, then who did?
If God did create AIDS, why?

[kimba1]

for the same reason all illness are made.
but it`s man job to deal with it
this article is a good test
is a person who don`t care for gays ,but willing to donate or help people with aids less christian than somebody who does nothing ?
ex. rich has pointed out he doesn`t care for them but cannot due to the fact he know some .
not all are bad
but to his credit he puts up a good fight
I`m betting he`ll help but bitch about it.

[Plane]

Actually Manogomy might reduce transmission , but God not liking it is a bigger problem than merely dieing of it.

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You mean monogamy.

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