The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #153828   Message #3612184
Posted By: akenaton
23-Mar-14 - 04:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Discussion of HIV transmission.
Subject: RE: BS: Discussion of HIV transmission.
GUEST T, you are simply wrong.

"Gay and bisexual men
In addition to working to build on the successes in these
populations, it is also critical to accelerate progress in
combatting the current HIV crisis among gay and bisexual
men. Community and public health prevention
efforts led to dramatic success in this population in the
early years of the epidemic. After new HIV infections
among men who have sex with men (MSM) peaked in
the mid-1980s at more than 75,000 new infections a year,
the number of new infections plummeted to less than
18,000 per year by the early 1990s. Unfortunately, after
years of steady progress, new infections again began to
rise among MSM throughout the 1990s.7 While in recent
years, prevention efforts may have helped stabilize infections,
they are occurring at far too high a level (29,800 per
year.)8 Additionally, young MSM are the only risk group
in which new infections are increasing. This underscores
the need to sustain and re-invigorate prevention efforts
for gay and bisexual men of every race and to ensure that
each generation is effectively reached."

The epidemic was almost under control in 1990, but infection rates have been rising steadily up until the present time amongst MSM.

Young MSM are the ONLY demographic in which infection rates are rising