PBS.org:
The American South has a big HIV problem.
Rates of HIV infection among men who have sex with men are highest in six Southern states and the District of Columbia, according to a new analysis, conducted by researchers at Emory University. In these states — South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia — more than 15 percent of men who have sex with men were HIV-posi tive in 2012.
And in Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, the rates of diagnosed HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men were nearly twice that of the national rate, the researchers reported Tuesday.
When the authors looked at the data on a city level, 21 of the top 25 cities were in the South. In five cities — Jackson, Miss., Columbia, S.C., El Paso, Texas, Augusta, Ga., and Baton Rouge, La. — at least a quarter of all men who have sex with men were living with HIV in 2012.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that around 1.2 million Americans aged 13 and older are living with HIV infection. Men who have sex with men make up an estimated 4 percent of the overall US population, but nearly two-thirds of all new HIV infections in 2010 were in this demographic.So Barack Obama, the nation's 1st Gay President, who successfully got 'gay marriage' passed and continues to advocate for the "rights" of men and women who choose to have sex with people of the same gender (something that was clearly never in God's plan) while dismissing personal responsibility, can rest easy and ignore statistics that show men who have sex with men are the driving force behind the continuing rise in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Because he's a Godless liberal and nothing else matters.
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