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Originally posted by aurora_borealis
Kevin you know I adores ya, but I believe (and please someone that has the EXACTS back me up to make others happy) is that HIV is spreading fastest among heterosexual women that are Black, and not in the male homosexual community. Chaos, CT4 Lovelyivy, Jill1228, I know you are the Divas with the facts.
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My argument had nothing to do with which demographics are more prone to new infections. I was talking about who is currently infected. The CDC table in this link will back me up
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I admit the data here is a little dated. However, out of the 718,002 cases reported to the CDC in 2002, 420,790 were reported to be by way of male to male sexual contact. 59,719 were male to male and injected drug use. By my count that's well over half.
This compares to the cases that were reported contracted through heterosexual contact of only 50,793.
There would have to be some freak occurance for those two numbers to be anywhere near close at this point.
I don't think it's a huge leap to say that if benefits are made available to spouses of homosexuals who are infected with HIV that it'll hit the employer's benefits provider in the pocketbook.
But that was the only way I could see this even remotely effecting most of us.
I think you'd agree though with what I said... Even though I accept the above as true, I don't think it's a large enough issue to really make anyone oppose this.