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July 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda FRIDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) — New research pinpoints a
major reason why gay and bisexual men remain so vulnerable to the AIDS
epidemic: When it comes to the transmission of HIV, a man who has
unprotected anal intercourse is at especially high risk.
In fact, if that kind of intercourse was only as risky as vaginal
intercourse, researchers report, HIV cases among gay and bisexual men
would shrink dramatically. It would go down even more, they added, if
their rates of casual sex declined.
The reality, however, is much different. “Everywhere we looked, HIV is
expanding both in high- and low-income countries among men who have sex
with men,” said study author Dr. Chris Beyrer, director of the Johns
Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program.
The experts were quick to note that, worldwide, it is heterosexual men
and women who are by far the majority of those who are infected with HIV.
Still, more than 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, gay and bisexual men
remain especially vulnerable to infection despite a heavy emphasis on
condoms and HIV testing; these men make up the bulk of HIV cases in the
United States and other Western countries.
According to UNAIDS, HIV is more common among gay and bisexual men than
adults in general in all areas of the world, even Africa. In North
America, an estimated 15 percent of gay and bisexual men are infected with
HIV; the rate is the highest, 25 percent, in the Caribbean.
Previous research has shown that being on the receiving end of anal
intercourse is equally risky whether you’re a man or a woman. The risk was
estimated at 1.4 percent per sex act with an infected person — about 18
times more risky than male-to-female vaginal intercourse.
The study authors estimate that if receptive anal intercourse were only
as risky as vaginal intercourse, HIV cases would fall by 80 percent to 98
percent among gay and bisexual men over five years. They also estimate
that cases would fall by 29 percent to 51 percent if more gay and bisexual
men had sex in long-term relationships instead of casual encounters.
The findings appear in the July 20 issue of The Lancet, along
with several other studies that examine the prevalence of HIV — the virus
that causes AIDS — in gay and bisexual men and offer suggestions about
prevention.
Two studies examined the higher risk of HIV infection among black
men.
One study found that black gay and bisexual men outside Africa are much
more likely to be HIV-positive than the general population and other
blacks. The other found that black gay and bisexual men in the United
States were more likely to be infected with HIV than other gay and
bisexual men, but less likely to have a history of substance abuse. If
infected, they were also less likely to have started to take
life-extending drugs that fight HIV.
There were other differences: black men were less likely to have access
to medical care and more likely to have sex with other black men.
What to do? Another study suggests the greater use of prevention
approaches — such as condoms, more medical treatment for those who are
already infected and use of medication that prevent infection — could
shrink new HIV cases among gay and bisexual men by one-fourth over the
next decade. “But it’s not simple as choosing the best ones. There are
existing technologies, but we need to put them together” and expand them,
said Dr. Patrick S. Sullivan, an associate professor at Emory University’s
Rollins School of Public Health.
It’s also important, he said, to change societies that stigmatize
homosexuality and turn it into a criminal offense.
More information
For more about AIDS, try the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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