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Kiss of Death
Location: Perpetual wind and sorrow
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Arch, not to give merit to something even I find disgusting, but after reading the article I looked further into the matter. Here is something I found in a government report.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/aidsstat.htm
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HIV/AIDS IN THE UNITED STATES
* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 850,000 to 950,000 U.S. residents are living with HIV infection, one-quarter of whom are unaware of their infection.(2)
* Approximately 40,000 new HIV infections occur each year in the United States, about 70 percent among men and 30 percent among women. Of these newly infected people, half are younger than 25 years of age.(3,4)
* Of new infections among men in the United States, CDC estimates that approximately 60 percent of men were infected through homosexual sex, 25 percent through injection drug use, and 15 percent through heterosexual sex. Of newly infected men, approximately 50 percent are black, 30 percent are white, 20 percent are Hispanic, and a small percentage are members of other racial/ethnic groups.(4)
* Of new infections among women in the United States, CDC estimates that approximately 75 percent of women were infected through heterosexual sex and 25 percent through injection drug use. Of newly infected women, approximately 64 percent are black, 18 percent are white, 18 percent are Hispanic, and a small percentage are members of other racial/ethnic groups.(4)
* The estimated number of AIDS diagnoses through 2002 in the United States is 886,575. Adult and adolescent AIDS cases total 877,275, with 718,002 cases in males and 159,271 cases in females. Through the same time period, 9,300 AIDS cases were estimated in children under age 13.(5)
* The estimated number of new adult/adolescent AIDS diagnoses in the United States was 43,225 in 1998, 41,134 in 1999, 42,239 in 2000, 41,227 in 2001, and 42,136 in 2002.(5)
* The estimated number of new pediatric AIDS cases (cases among individuals younger than age 13) in the United States fell from 952 in 1992 to 92 in 2002.(5)
* The estimated rate of adult/adolescent AIDS diagnoses in the United States in 2002 (per 100,000 population) was 76.4 among blacks, 26.0 among Hispanics, 11.2 among American Indians/Alaska Natives, 7.0 among whites, and 4.9 among Asians/Pacific Islanders.(5)
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MEdical News today Dec 03 2004 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medi...p?newsid=17271
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Men of color were also disproportionately represented among rates of new HIV diagnoses. In 2003, the highest rate of HIV/AIDS diagnosis was among African-American males (103.4 per 100,000 population), a rate almost seven times that of white men and nearly three times the rate among Latino men. Men who have sex with men (MSM) continued to account for the largest proportion of diagnoses-44 percent of all HIV diagnoses during the four-year period, and 61 percent of diagnoses among men.
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And Finally the CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats.htm
(click on AIDS cases by exposure)
Taken from a graph, dimensions don't evenly go across. First Number is Male, 2nd Female, then 3rd Total cases in America
Quote:
Male-to-male sexual contact 17,969 - 17,969
Injection Drug Use 6,353 3,096 9,449
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use 1,877 - 1,877
Heterosexual contact 5,133 8,127 13,260
Other* 281 276 577
Male-to-male sexual contact 440,887 - 440,887
Injection Drug Use 175,988 70,558 246,546
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use 62,418 - 62,418
Heterosexual contact 56,403 93,586 149,989
Other* 14,191 6,535 20,726
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Again, the people who wrote the first article were insensitive and just moronic as far as putting their information out there and turning people off with the ridiculousness of the article, at that however there is still merit to the article.
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