June 27, 2008
WHICH MAKES CALLING IT AN EPIDEMIC A LIE:
H.I.V. And Aids Diagnoses Rise in Men Who Have Sex With Men (DAVID TULLER, 6/27/08, NY Times)
Diagnoses of H.I.V. and AIDS in men who have sex with men rose significantly from 2001 to 2006, while declining in other demographic groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. The increase in infection rates was especially high among males ages 13 to 24, with an annual increase of 12.4 percent, compared with 1.5 percent for men over all. The annual increase was higher still among young African-American men who have sex with men, nearly 15 percent. “It’s a grim report,” said Dr. Ronald Stall, an epidemiologist and professor of public health at the University of Pittsburgh. “It means roughly speaking that about half of the American AIDS epidemic is occurring among a few percent of the adult population."
Oughtn't it be a relief that the only way to acquire the disease is through considerable conscious effort to do so? Posted by Orrin Judd at June 27, 2008 11:33 AM
13 years old!
Posted by: pchuck at June 27, 2008 12:51 PMWhat's up with the bizarre avoidance of the terms gay or homosexual?
Posted by: b at June 27, 2008 1:31 PMWhat's up with the bizarre avoidance of the terms gay or homosexual?
There are apparently a decent number of people who refuse to call themselves gay or homosexual (or even bisexual) but who have sex with men "on the down low." This is supposedly more common among black men.
Posted by: John Thacker at June 27, 2008 2:00 PMI assume that it's because black men who have sex with other men refuse to self-identity as gay or homosexual, which is one reason that anyone ever thought that straight men were at risk.
Posted by: Ibid at June 27, 2008 2:05 PM"There are apparently a decent number of [men] who refuse to call themselves gay or homosexual (or even bisexual) but who have sex with men"
Riiight. So if I call myself a rhinoceros, everyone will play along, right? And studies about human and rhinoceros behavior, respectively, will change their terminology to accomodate me? What Orwellian asininity.
Posted by: b at June 27, 2008 3:11 PM
Wow! That's how a vast majority of people get HIV and AIDS? I would have thought it randomly strikes anyone, like Polio did before vaccinations.
Posted by: pchuck at June 27, 2008 12:49 PM