New York City’s rate of HIV infection is about three times the national rate, according to estimates released Wednesday by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The agency estimates that 72 of every 100,000 New Yorkers — a total of 4,800 individuals — contracted HIV in 2006, more than triple the national rate of 23 per 100,000.
HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus, is the virus that causes AIDS.
In June, the city launched a three-year initiative to administer HIV tests to the 250,000 Bronx adults who have never been tested. The program was announced just days after release of a study finding a high rate of “unsafe sexual behavior” in the city.
Freidan said the study showed that 36 percent of gay and bisexual New York men who had five or more partners in the previous year did not use condoms consistently.
“This is a core group which is at high risk for getting and spreading HIV,” Freidan said.
Yeah there are more gays in New York.
Perhaps they should go for really safe sex?
Darwinism at work. Evolution rules.
#3 – Paddy-O
LOL
The problem is that they don’t know if it’s due to sex vs IV drug use. I am betting it’s more due to IV drug use or drug use in general.
#1 Must be. I know I haven’t seen any since I landed here in the Bay Area. They’re green and have horns, right? 😉
#5 Word.
Sex education at it’s best! Considering the quality of a US education maybe government teaching safe sex is a bad idea?
#1 – MikeN,
You really are an offensive son of a bitch. Do you know people die from this? Do you care at all how callous you sound? Do you know that straight people are not immune from AIDS? Do you know the first thing about anything?
#2 – Paddy-O,
You’re even worse.
#8 “You’re even worse.”
??
You don’t agree with the Theory of evolution?
Hey, I don’t make the natural laws. Why complain about me noting them?
I agree with the fact of evolution and the theory of natural selection that explains it.
I am not happy when I see someone fall victim to it. Nor do I think that poor sex ed creating extra victims that should not exist is a good thing. I also find the shameful way we have neither concentrated on prevention nor a cure for something that kills so many millions of humans is unconscionable.
Yet, you rejoice at the deaths of people you think are so fundamentally different from yourself that their lives do not matter. You also seem not to care that the disease is probably among the worst ways possible to die.
You are despicable and immoral.
#10 “I am not happy when I see someone fall victim to it.”
They aren’t falling “victim” to anything. This is a volunteer action. If I knowingly walk off of a cliff, I’m not a victim but a willing participant.
#2 Jägermeister
Or how about this?
http://tinyurl.com/BodyGuard-Full-Body-Condom
#11 – Paddy-O,
Clearly you’ve never heard of broken condoms or blood transfusions. Aside from that though, you don’t have to stand at the edges of cliffs cheering on those who jump.
Schadenfreude anyone?
#10 “I also find the shameful way we have neither concentrated on prevention nor a cure for something that kills so many millions of humans is unconscionable.”
This is actually a minor killer of humans. There are actually much more dangerous diseases to tackle 1st. Doing otherwise would be immoral especially as AIDS is almost 100% preventable.
Hell, car accidents take more lives, most of them innocent of anything.
So, you would rather spend the limited $ on a cure for a preventable problem than diseases that can’t really be prevented by an individual?
That’s pretty despicable & unethical. Hmm?
#13 “Clearly you’ve never heard of broken condoms or blood transfusions.”
You’re WAY behind the times. Do you know how many
AIDS cases last year in the US where from blood transfusions? Also, BEFORE you have sex with someone you need to have them get an AIDS test, unless you want to possibly “walk off the cliff”.
If you can’t take precautions & not have random multiple partners then you might be SOL. Right?
“Every day, 3,000 children die from malaria. This disease is Africa’s biggest killer, with over 1.5 million deaths per year, mostly children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Why are you concentrating on AIDS? Why would you want to divert funds from really deadly problems in Africa? Do you want to see children die there?
In short, you are a hypocrite of epic proportion.
#12 – Ah_Yea
Hehe… that one must be custom made for this lady…
Scott, the story says that NYC rate is 3x higher than the nation. I pointed out that this should be obvious given the number of gays there. How you call that cheering or making fun I don’t know.
Perhaps you should direct your hate at Tony Kushner or other theater types who put into their plays lines like ‘I have AIDS’ ‘Well I guess I’m dead’ to audience laughter.
#17 “You are wrong about traffic fatalities, however.”
I don’t count where there are no cars.
2005 16,865 US deaths from AIDS
2005 43,443 killed in US car accidents
“First, I never said not to reduce other deaths.”
No, you just want to divert LIMITED $ to fight AIDS over more serious killers. AIDS is preventable, easily. The other more serious causes of death, much less so…
Pick you causes based on your priorities… A persons priorities are telling…
#18 – MikeN,
If you reread my comments, you will see that I did not accuse you of cheering. I have directed that comment at Rice-Paddy-O for his comment in post #3 that sounded like cheering to me. Thus far, s/he has not denied it. If I was unclear about that comment’s direction solely at Paddy, I apologize.
My other comments to you still stand, however. You do indeed sound quite callous about the situation. You do indeed seem to have little or no sympathy for people who go from young to old in a few years. This is a very serious illness that affects us all as a society, even those of us who merely know or knew someone who has or had it. For those of us who have lost close friends, it is a catastrophe.
You just can’t take away a person’s God given right to improve the race by killing themselves no matter how hard you try.
Sad.
#16 Jägermeister
Wow! She’s big enough for TWO!
If the stupid Psychologists would not have removed the deviant behavior of Homosexuality from their psychological manual (DSM V) people would be treated for this condition and would not have to die or contract HIV/AIDS.
If i were able to through public outcry convince the medical community that diabetes is a normal condition that does not need treated.I would not be doing myself or any other diabetics a favor by doing this. I am just shutting off any treatment for myself and other diabetics to get the help they need to live a healthy life. This is what the homosexual actions groups did. They condemned themselves to death in the name of acceptance.
“Fine homosexuality is normal, now go destroy your lives”
My wife works in the hair industry and has known and talked to dozens of homosexuals, she has yet to meet one that was not sexually abused as a child or young adult. Homosexuality is a result of sexual abuse and the tramau that ravages a person’s life as a result of that tramau. You can lie to yourself all you want but the truth is a stubborn thing.
Just because you are born with a predispostion toward deviant activity like raping people doesnt mean that you or society should accept that as proof that it is acceptable. There are alot of people who are born with psychological predispostions toward types of self destructive deviant behavior. Some people like to sexually abuse children, kill people, or drink too much and beat their wives. It doesn’t mean that they have a God given right to engage in such behavior even if they can find other willing participants or other people who agree with them.
#23–Scot==if someone is born with ovaries and a dick but no vagina and no testicles, what sex are they?
#23 – Scot
>>the deviant behavior of Homosexuality
Are you a time traveler from the 19th century? Sheesh.
#23 – scottbrv,
Obviously you have no idea that homosexuality is normal throughout the sexually reproducing portion of the animal kingdom. For you to compare homosexuality to diabetes makes you horribly uninformed as well as bigoted.
http://tinyurl.com/2hgshc
Nothing like doing a little bit of basic research before posting to keep one from appearing completely ignorant of the subject about which one is posting.
#23 “she has yet to meet one that was not sexually abused as a child or young adult.”
I know two that don’t fit that criteria…
First off if someone is born with misidentified sexual organs i guess you could easily check their DNA and see what sex they were supposed to be! Men and women are actually genetically different not just sexually (XX XY chromosones).
It always amazes me that homosexuals go to the animal kingdom to justify their behavior I guess that just shows you how distorted their thinking really is. Some animals eat their young so I guess it is alright for us to do that right?
Also concordance studies of identical twins do NOT indicate that both will be homosexuals even though they are genetically identical and even if they grow up in different homes and never see each other, so you are not born that way it is a choice. A choice that shortens your life in half and will ensure that you spend enternity in HELL….But I guess I will be labeled a gay hater because I am willing to tell the truth.
I dont see how it is more loving to let them destroy themselves and others under the banner of tolerance this is how they got into this mess to begin with with AIDS and a shorter lifespan and all but if they want to keep drinking the poison Koolaid I guess there is nothing I can do about it except occasionally yell please stop that is poison, to which of course I will be labeled a gay hater. At least I will sleep will a clear conscience…..
scottbrv,
Sleep with your clear conscience. Sleep alone. For your views are abhorrent and despicable. That you can rationalize them shows that we are rationalizing animals, not rational ones.
misanthropic scott,
Here is a link confirming chimpanze infanticide and cannabalism so i guess this could now be considered as “normal” of behavior as homosexuality. Good for you misanthropic scott maybe we can even legalize this at some point and we and devolve to the animal kingdom. Thanks for the head start toward de-evolution.