Sexual Contact with other men leading ause Of Aids.

[Sovereignty]

In 2002, HIV/AIDS was the third leading cause of death among Hispanic men aged 35 to 44 and the fourth leading cause of death among Hispanic women in the same age group. Most Hispanic men were exposed to HIV through sexual contact with other men.

Source Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Hispanic/Latinos | CDC HIV/AIDS

 

[Diuretic]

Sounds like there's a need for education leading to behaviour modification.

 

[Mad Scientist]

What? Sexual contact between men leads to AIDS?

That's news to me.

 

[Diuretic]

What? Sexual contact between men leads to AIDS?

That's news to me.

Then you need to keep up. There's quite a bit of information around about it now.

 

[xsited1]

I wonder what Charles Darwin would have to say about that...

 

[glockmail]

I wonder what Charles Darwin would have to say about that...

I was just going to say that....

 

[Bass v 2.0]

The consequences of gay sex acts coming to fruitition.

 

[waltky]

Gay men still main spreaders of HIV...

CDC: Gay Men 2% of Population But 67% of All New HIV Cases
February 4, 2016 | Although homosexuals, or men who have sex with men (MSM), make up about 2% of the U.S. population, they account for 67% of “all new HIV diagnoses,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In addition, there are about 1.2 million people in the United States with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and an estimated 647,700 (54%) of those people are homosexuals, or MSM. The 67% of all new HIV cases is for 2013 and the 54% living with HIV is for 2011, the latest years, according to the CDC, for that particular data. Among some of the other facts about HIV/AIDS, reported by the CDC, are:

The World Health Organization recommends that MSM take anti-retroviral drugs to prevent spreading HIV even if they do not have HIV.​

-- About 50,000 people become newly infected each year in the United States.

-- “More than 14,000 people with AIDS in the United States die each year.”

-- “More than 650,000 people with AIDS in the United States have died” since the epidemic started in the early 1980s.

-- “Men who have sex with men (MSM) remain the group most heavily affected by HIV in the United States.”

-- “White MSM continue to represent the largest number of new HIV infections among MSM (11,200), followed closely by black MSM (10,600)and Hispanic MSM (6,700).”

-- “The number of new infections among the youngest MSM (aged 13-24) increased 22 percent, from 7,200 infections in 2008 to 8,800 in 2010.”

-- “There was a 12 percent increase in HIV incidence among MSM overall, from 26,700 in 2008 to 29,800 in 2010.”

-- “Transgender individuals are also heavily affected by HIV. A 2008 review of HIV studies among transgender women found that, on average, 28 percent tested positive for HIV.”

As for reducing the risk of being infected with HIV, the CDC states: