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...months ago. ANSS's first task has been to provide gel lubricants to gay men in Burundi, where in 2004, the government banned NGOs from sending the taboo lubricant there, leaving many men to use unsafe substitutes during sex - Vaseline, for instance, which weakens latex condoms, compromising protection against HIV transmission. Kanuma has arranged to receive shipments of lubricants from NGOs in France, with a monthly supply of 2,000 packets to hand out to about 40 men who have come forward, a small proportion of the roughly 250 gay men in the capital city of Bujumbura. (Kanuma says...
Many men who don't consider themselves gay also, predictably, do not consider themselves to be participating in high-risk behavior. But even among openly gay men who know they are carriers of HIV, there is increasing carelessness. In a recent U.S. study, Dr. Kenneth Mayer, an infectious-diseases expert at the Miriam Hospital and professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found that nearly half (45%) of the 201 HIV-positive men surveyed were high-risk transmitters: among them, the most likely to transmit HIV to partners were young men who drank heavily (more...
...Offering a wide variety of condom options is not only a smart business move, it's good for public health. When used properly, condoms don't just act as contraceptives; they also prevent the spread of most sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. That means sexual-health educators, public health officials and condom brand CEOs alike are interested in finding ways to make condoms more appealing, especially to young people...
...Atlanta HIV Rate Revisited The Centers for Disease Control has been undercounting the number of new HIV cases in the U.S. Revised figures put the number of newly infected Americans at 55,000 to 58,500 per year instead of 40,000. The overall rate has been stable since the 1990s but is still alarmingly high among gay men and African Americans...
Estimated new HIV infections in 2006, by race or ethnicity...