Staggering Rise in HIV Infection Among Young Black Males

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Staggering Rise in HIV Infection Among Young Black Males

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Men participate in a lesbian and gay pride parade in June 2007.

The incidence of HIV infection among young, black American males who have slept with men shot up 48 percent between 2006 and 2009, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The overall rate of new HIV infection remained the same.

An official with the CDC pointed to the lack of adequate health care for many black Americans as one of the primary causes of the ongoing tragedy. View the full report here. —ARK

National Journal:

The rate of new HIV infections in the United States remained stable between 2006 and 2009 though infections increased among young black gay and bisexual men, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The first multiyear estimate of national HIV incidences found new infections have remained steady with an estimated 50,000 new infections each year. But the agency expressed concerns about the “alarming” rate of new infections among young black gay and bisexual men, where there was a 48 percent increase in new infections between 2006 and 2009.

... [The CDC’s Joseph] Prejean attributed the increase in new infections to a lack of access to health care and the stigma surrounding homosexuality and HIV. He also said insular communities make the spread of disease easier. In black communities where blacks are more likely to date other blacks, when an infected person is introduced to the community, disease spreads.

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By Common Sense, January 23 at 2:25 pm Link to this comment
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The government created the AIDS virus pure and simple.

Congress approved the research back in 1969 and awarded 10 million for the research to scientist at Fort Dietrick, MD

The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control are all in it together.

They flew to Africa in the early 1980’s and inoculated thousands of men, women, and children. Twenty-six million Africans have died to date.

It is now an ethno-specific biowarfare means of killing. It is a more higher form of killing. The target group is blacks.

A different strain is now being used than what was formerly used on white gay males back in the late 1970’s. White gay males are no longer dying!!

Black men are now being vaccinated in prison. There are almost 1 milliion black men in prsion. When they come out, they have sex with black women. You can do the math…

People please do your research!!!! We perish for a lack of knowlege!!!!

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By Peter Knopfler, August 4, 2011 at 2:27 pm Link to this comment

HERE IS AN IDEA NOW REMEMBER
your entitled to your OWN opinion, BUT NOT YOUR OWN
FACTS:
Compare the Aids rate by REGION, to the RAPE RATE:

EXAMPLE under PRES. Clintons Watch=33,000 RAPES
mostly gang rapes)HAITI.
Kenya where 85% of women over 10 years old are
raped, continuously raped until too old!

Medical Science tells us 90% more chance of Aids,
FROM Multiple sex partners, half the rapes are gang
rapes… Rise in AIDS.
NO BRAINER GUYS!
KEEP YOUR DICK IN YOUR PANTS SHOW SOME RESPECT.

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By Rodney, August 4, 2011 at 12:23 pm Link to this comment
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A lot of black men are in denial.After watching Magic
Johnson live for twenty years with HIV they believe
that they either won’t get or can live forever with
it.
George Bush provided HIV treatment in Africa yet he
failed to provide those same level of services here
at home. Yet in this new Republican tea bagging group
of racists running the house now, every black man in
America would be allowed to die before the black
community received any assistance. Black men need to
learn how to protect and educate against the dangers
of HIV. Incarceration plays a huge part in the HIV
infection rate of black men. A lot of them become
jail gay. Once they are released from prison they
continue that same behavior on the down low and
infect the women they have had a relationship with.
Additionally there are a lot of feminine men in the
black church. Men like Bishop Eddie Long prey not
pray on them for their own sexual gratification. Then
there are transgendered black men having unprotected
sex for money. Throw in drug and alcohol use and you
have an epidemic that could wipe out the black male
population in America.As long as we continue to cut
education, health care, reproductive care,birth
control and STD treatment them we will see the rise
of HIV in America. Since we can no longer be slaves,
the tea baggers needed a new way to control the
population of blacks. Deny proper health care. Aids
just gave them the boost they needed.

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By tropicgirl, August 4, 2011 at 7:03 am Link to this comment

This is nothing but a re-hash of diseased blankets to the American Indians.

The government has the “cure”, has had it all along, because they created it. In fact, they have the “cure” for most diseases and real, working vaccines, not the fake, infected, autism-causing crap they stuff into our kids.

There is so much information on this its ridiculous.

And we are to the point of the elites who benefit admitting it to people in real time, in the course of conversation.

But, there is always a need to kill off young black males with attitude. Always, right?

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