From left-leaning Time magazine.
Excerpt:
As the world’s leading AIDS researchers gather for the
International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., scientists report
that despite gains in controlling the spread of HIV, the disease has
continued to spread at an alarming rate in the very population in which
it first appeared — gay men.
In a series of papers in the Lancet dedicated to the
dynamics of HIV among gay men — a group epidemiologists define as men
who have sex with men (MSM) — scientists say that the continued burden
of AIDS in this group is due to a combination of lifestyle and
biological factors that put these men at higher risk. Rates are rising
in all countries around the world.
In one study, led by Chris Beyrer, of the Center for Public Health
and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
researchers analyzed surveillance reports and studies of HIV among MSM,
including data that were part of routine United Nations reporting from
member nations. Rates of HIV among gay men ranged from 3% in the Middle
East to 25% in the Caribbean. In all reporting nations, rates were on
the rise, even in developed nations like the U.S., Australia and the
U.K. where HIV is declining overall. Continue at WintryKnight
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