HIV on rise

Or they don't care about their own life anymore, but they need to know there is always someone who love them rather they are gay or not.

Even though my religion teaches traditional marriage because what it symbolized and meant for, I still love my friends who are gays and lesbians. I still grieve for my gay friend who used to work with me, he died of diabete. I think about him everyday and still miss him.
 
Most of the new AIDS infections are among young people. No one has taught the young people about safer sex. It's a lack of sex education that's causing AIDS infection rates to increase in all demographics. The gay community, prostitutes, IV drug users and the black community are suffering the worse. The government has not intervened to help these people like it should.

Lighthouse, I'm sorry for your loss. It's tragic to lose a dear friend too soon.
 
Sorry to hear it...(again)....I've educated myself about Aids, I'm celibate and all my boys carry condoms in their wallets, get sex education from school and at home....they are straight. Not everyone can be forced/told to take precautions. MY guess is they just don't care.
 
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sallylou said:
Most of the new AIDS infections are among young people. No one has taught the young people about safer sex. It's a lack of sex education that's causing AIDS infection rates to increase in all demographics. The gay community, prostitutes, IV drug users and the black community are suffering the worse. The government has not intervened to help these people like it should.

Lighthouse, I'm sorry for your loss. It's tragic to lose a dear friend too soon.
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:gpost: Exactly!
 
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netrox said:
I am not one bit surprised. Gays don't use condoms anymore thinking that antiviral meds do the job and protect them from infecting others. Stupid.

Rise Seen in HIV Infections Among Gays, High-Risk Groups - AOL News
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Please re-read your article... the link you gave to us. Read very carefully. This talks mainly about "inaccessibility" to law, medical, and educational sources. This points out to governments of nations -- their faults, not ours. Also, this says that it is about "Around The World."

Be careful what you said - You called us stupid, therefore your government and local people must be stupid enough for neither enough giving the law, educational, and medical sources nor spreading the message to help each other and protecting others. You know that, many countries prohibited condom distribution, banned condoms, Middle Easterners and Catholics don't believe in condoms, or not enough money to distribute condoms to the poorest nations such as Africa, China, India and other nations.

The rigid laws toward homosexuality caused the practices of "underground." Many people are afraid to go to store and buy condoms in the public; it would be more likely to be targeted. That's why they stayed away from stores and hospitals, stayed hide, and dealt their "urges."

Again, it mentioned in the article that the "Race" plays a factor. 70 percents gave the HIV rate a big boost by drug users. Sex-workers and Prostitutes in other nations on rise, too -- are well known spreading the HIV, too. They are allowed to practice in other nations, unfortunately.

In the conclusion, the focus of this article is not about gay people.
Wise up!
 
Most of the new AIDS infections are among young people.
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Yes. netrox, I understand your frustration. Sometimes it seems like there is a subpopulation of gay guys who are very mindless hedonist types. Like they are extremely promesticus and do drugs and stuff like that. But at the same time there are a lot of young hetro dumbasses who sleep around with prosistutes or who do drugs too!
Not all gay guys are the kind that sleep around. Most of the gay (and hetro) guys who sleep around tend to be really fucked up emotionally, and they're trying to find an emoitional connection, which they can't quite get. But in guy culture the unspoken message is that "the more sex you have the better, and the happier you should be"
 
Stereotyping doesnt help. Giving support and education does.
 
I think some heterosexual guys would not wear condoms either if they weren't so worry about pregnancy. I'm not really sure they would wear one because of diseases because most of them hate condom , although some of them might.
 
The new infections are in the 18-25 YO group. At that age, people don't think that it'll happen to them. It's a developmental stage. In adolescence and young adulthood, people feel invincible. Their brains aren't fully "connected." Brain scans show that teen's frontal lobes do not function like an adults' frontal lobes. That's why teens and young adults don't fully appreciate possible consequences.

Here's a link:

The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet : NPR
 
shel90 said:
Stereotyping doesnt help. Giving support and education does.
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Not sure about education in schools, but the AIDS/HIV seems to have dropped out from the spotlight on TV these days. I don't see public service announcements warning people to avoid this disease or use protection. If there are, they are far too few and in between.

To me, my guess since it's not being aired often, it's giving a false sense of security that there's nothing to worry about anymore.

Yiz
 
My teenage soon took health in a public school and he got no sex education. The health teacher didn't even teach the kids about STDs. Since my teen took the course, the state dropped the health and technology requirements to graduate from high school. Who needs to be healthy or be able to use a computer? /sarcastic rant
 
I thought they teach that sort of thing in 5th/6th grade and in middle school. I don't really remember them teaching it every year.
 
Brain scans show that teen's frontal lobes do not function like an adults' frontal lobes. That's why teens and young adults don't fully appreciate possible consequences.
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heck the brain isn't fully functional in twentysomethings either!
 
AOL News (March 16) -- HIV infection rates among high-risk groups like gays, drug users and sex workers are on the rise around the world, The Associated Press reports, with U.N. AIDS agency chief Michel Sidibe saying the increase may be due to worsening discrimination against these groups in certain countries.[/B

]"We must insist that the rights of the minorities are upheld," Sidibe told the AP on Monday. "If we don't do that ... I think the epidemic will grow again. We cannot accept the tyranny of the majority."
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In the U.S., the statistics were worse. Despite laws that are more tolerant of homosexuality, more than half of all new HIV infections in 2009 occurred among gay men, which Sidibe called "shocking." In the U.S., Sidibe said, "it seems like we have come full circle," and not in a good way.
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Increase due to discrimination.....yet worse where people are more tolerant
 
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