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July 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda MONDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) — A new study finds disturbingly high
rates of new HIV infections among American black men who are gay or
bisexual, particularly those aged 30 and younger.
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
Researchers with the HIV Prevention Trials Network looked at nearly
1,600 black gay and bisexual men in six cities — Atlanta, Boston, New
York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. — between 2009 and
2011.
The overall rate of new HIV infection among the men was 2.8 percent per
year, which is nearly 50 percent higher than in white gay and bisexual men
in the United States. The rate among black gay and bisexual men 30 and
younger was 5.9 percent per year.
The overall rate of new HIV infection among black gay and bisexual men
in the United States is comparable to rates in the general populations of
countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have been hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS
epidemic.
The study was to be presented Monday at the International AIDS
Conference in Washington, D.C. Data and conclusions presented at meetings
should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical
journal.
“We have known that black [gay and bisexual men] are affected by HIV at
disproportionately higher rates when compared to other [gay and bisexual
men] in the U.S., but the [study’s] HIV incidence rates were extremely
high,” study co-chairman Darrell Wheeler, dean of the School of Social
Work at Loyola University in Chicago, said in an HIV Prevention Trials
Network news release. “They make it very clear that we must urgently find
and implement ways to stem the spread of HIV among black gay men in this
country, and critically among young black gay men.”
Other early analyses from the study show that HIV infection in black
gay and bisexual men in the United States was associated with both poverty
and high rates of untreated sexually transmitted infections.
“The study findings are a sobering wake-up call,” Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr,
co-principal investigator for the HIV Prevention Trials Network, said in
the news release. “These results — and others to be garnered from further
analysis of the study — highlight the enormity of the challenges ahead
and offer important insights into how to design research studies and
programs for prevention of HIV among black [gay and bisexual men].”
The researchers are continuing their analysis of data from the study in
order to determine whether HIV risk among black gay and bisexual men might
be affected by childhood experiences, social and sexual networks,
discrimination, homophobia, health care and incarceration.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about HIV and AIDS in the United States.
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