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...have sex with men accounted for 53% of all new HIV infections in 2006. "These data confirmed that we need to intensify our programs for men who have sex with men, and we need to plan strategically on how to move forward," says Kevin Fenton, director of HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention at the CDC. Programs to curb unsafe sex have to be more widely cast, Fenton says - for example, targeting the prevention message to patrons of gay bars isn't enough, since closeted men don't show up there. To reach the highest-risk groups, suggests Johns Hopkins...
...even given up smoking ("I can blow someone's head off, but I can't light a good cigar," growled current Bond actor Daniel Craig). Moreover, though still a ladykiller - sometimes quite literally - the priapic secret agent has morphed from infamous misogynist to indiscriminate misanthrope. He's discovered sexual equality, and so, it appears...
...only welcomes but actively seeks gay applicants. "For the sort of work that MI5 is doing - not just in operations but in terms of technical support and linguistics - the caliber of people is terribly important to its effectiveness," says Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the gay rights group Stonewall. Sexual preference is a nonissue...
...agencies in other parts of the world drew similar conclusions awhile ago. The CIA hosted a gay-pride celebration for its staff and colleagues from the National Security Agency back in 2000. A French counterintelligence official says that "in nearly 20 years in this business, I've never heard sexual orientation mentioned at all in discussing recruitment policies or individuals, including people whose homosexuality is a matter of virtual public record...
...Security services are wary of employing anyone with "excessive habits," says the official. This could be bad news for Bond, whose sexual appetites clearly register on the high end of the scale. Perhaps he should reconsider that job move...