Word: gay
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...easily spread. The virus is transmitted only through blood and sexual intercourse. No one has been found to get the virus from saliva, tears or toilet seats. As a result of education about AIDS and changes in sex habits, the rate of new infections has sharply dropped in some gay communities. And while the virus can sometimes be transmitted in heterosexual intercourse, the evidence does not indicate that AIDS is about to break out in a big way into the mainstream population...
...drug scene often transmit the virus to their unborn children, almost surely dooming them to an early death. Some researchers fear that AIDS could eventually spread, through heterosexual intercourse, from addicts to the population at large. But so far the epidemic has confined itself, for the most part, to gay communities, to the drug cultures of inner cities, and to hemophiliacs and others who have received tainted blood products and transfusions...
...many countries the spread of information about how the AIDS virus is transmitted has helped slow down the march of the disease among some groups. Gay communities around the world have made "safe sex" the watchword, and the use of condoms is up -- with dramatic results. From 1983 through 1985 in West Berlin, one-fourth of the homosexuals and bisexuals at a single clinic tested positive for the virus. In 1988 the figure had dropped below 10%. In San Francisco up to 5,000 people first tested positive for the virus in 1981; last year the number of newly discovered...
...disadvantaged. Blacks and Hispanics make up a disproportionate 40% of all AIDS cases, and that percentage is sure to rise. Says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief epidemiologist in the AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta: "The evening-news segments about AIDS used to show gay men walking hand in hand down a San Francisco street. Now it may be appropriate to show the black child in Harlem...
...special report on the progress of the killer epidemic. New infections are down in gay communities but up dramatically among intravenous drug abusers and their sex partners...