Monday, November 24, 2008
U.S. gay AIDS cases rise
American gay men in the number of people living with HIV has risen dramatically. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest report shows that in the period 1999-2002 the United States homosexual men in the number of people living with HIV increased by 17%. The statistics of the United States, including 29 states, excluding New York, California and Washington, DC. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the head of Jensen, now 20 years ago, and as critical. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials also said that the report needed a new strategy to deal with. Earlier this year, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention launched a campaign to urge safe sex, do not encourage people to share injection needles. However, Jenson said, has been urging people to enable them to prevent mental fatigue may be a lot of people think that AIDS and HIV infection is able to "treatment of the disease." The report in the December 1 World AIDS released a few days ago, shows the 1999-2002 period was diagnosed with the AIDS virus carriers in the number of men rose to 17,556 from 18,843. Gay men in the same period was diagnosed with HIV rose to 11,686 by 9988. Hispanic community in the number of people living with HIV increased the fastest, rising 26 percent rate, while whites in an increase of 8%. In Africa and Asia, Americans do not grow in, black people living with HIV in new cases accounted for 55%. It is estimated that the U.S. HIV carriers in a total of 850000-950000 between.
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