Friday, July 05, 2019

The face of HIV is aging

I received a notice in e-mail of a medical seminar on the “Changing faces of HIV” and the photo to advertise this topic was an attractive white blonde woman. False advertising; fake news.  Gay and bisexual men are the population most affected by HIV in the United States. In 2016, gay and bisexual men accounted for 67% of the 40,324 new HIV diagnoses in the United States and 6 dependent areas. (About 2% of the population) Approximately 492,000 sexually active gay and bisexual men are at high risk for HIV.  And most are black and young. https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/index.html

Women do contract HIV—usually from men who have sex with men, and most are also black.

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