Love this "Centers for Disease Prevention" yet they continually throw these people at the boy scouts and want to teach sodomy in the schools? Oh then they have the HIV and AIDS Cocktail - simply wonderful, how delightful. One would think under disease prevention they would consider the major cause of this horrendous disease.....meanwhilel, guard your children and the little cub scouts. Saba Center for Disease Prevention? Why not just call it Center for Genocide by Promoting Homosexuality and Lesbianism? Saba HIV surges among young gays New infections return to mid-1980s levelsWatch a video of the NBC Nightly News report.By Charlene Laino MSNBC May 31 � �About one in seven young, gay black men in major U.S. cities is newly infected with HIV, an alarming new government survey shows. Overall, new infection rates among young urban gays of all races are as high as those recorded at the peak of the epidemic in the 1980s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. � � �� � � [Saba Note: Now I wonder why the "alarming" increase in this disease among the urban gays and wonder about those who are bi sexual and their contributions to our society] � � � � � � � Report Issued June 1, 2001� � � � � � � �HIV IS SPREADING at stunning rates among urban gay men who are too young to recall the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic two decades ago, the CDC said. � � � �In a six-city study conducted between 1998 and 2000, 4.4 percent of homosexual and bisexual men aged 23 to 29 were newly infected with HIV each year, the researchers reported. � � � �The figure was even more staggering among young blacks � almost 15 percent of African Americans in this age group were infected annually, the report showed. That's nearly five times as high as the rates among whites and Latinos combined in the study. � � � �The overall high rate of new infections, combined with recent increases in STDs and risky behaviors among gay men, suggests the possibility of a resurgence of the disease in the gay population, the CDC said. � � � �Infection rates among gay men dropped precipitously in several cities after the intensive preventive efforts of the 1980s, said Dr. Helene Gayle, director of CDC's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. � � � �"But now we're seeing these extremely high overall rates and really frightening rates among blacks � numbers similar to those we saw in the beginning of the epidemic, during some of the peak years," she said. � � � � A VICTIM OF SUCCESS? � � � �Ironically, in some ways, the war on AIDS has become a victim of its own successes, she noted, pointing to studies that show a growing complacency among young men growing up in a era when potent drug combinations can keep the virus in check. � � � �Thanks to the powerful drug cocktails that have transformed AIDS from an almost certain death sentence into a chronic manageable disease for many, "some people think the disease is less serious," Gayle said. "And because they view it as less serious, these people are less concerned about taking risks. Even if they do get sick, they figure they can be treated." � � � �In one study released by the same group earlier this year, for example, almost half of young urban homosexual reported having unprotected anal sex during the past six months. �HIV in seven U.S. cities* Both new infection and overall infection rates among gay men aged 15 to 22 rose from the mid-90s to the late 90s. Black4.0%14.7%14.1%��30%Hispanic1.8%3.5%��6.9%��15%White2.4%2.5%��3.3%���7% *Cities surveyed: Baltimore, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Seattle **Percent newly infected with HIV annually. ***Percent infected with HIV, regardless of when they became infected. SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention � � � � � � � �While cautioning that the sample size was small and the findings may not be representative of all gay men, the extremely high rate of new infections points to the critical need for public health interventions, particularly in black communities, Gayle said. � � � �According to the CDC, blacks are increasingly bearing the brunt of the epidemic regardless of their sexual orientation. Of the some 40,000 new infections last year, more than half were among blacks. And black women are four times more likely to carry the virus than their white counterparts. � � � �The government's goal: to cut in half HIV infections among all Americans within five years. � � � � PREVENTION PLAN This page is too big to be shown completely.
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