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It's not the 90s anymore. In the developed world HIV primarily and disproportionately effects IV drug users, not gay men. In the developing world, it has nothi
by civilitty 3y ago
It's not the 90s anymore. In the developed world HIV primarily and disproportionately effects IV drug users, not gay men.
In the developing world, it has nothing to do with promiscuity but lack of education and access to preventative measures like condoms and PrEP.
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- jl6 3y agoThis is not true. In 2018 in the US, 66% of new HIV diagnoses were in the transmission category of male-to-male sexual contact: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/hiv-surveillance/vol-31/content/diagnoses.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/hiv-surveillance/vol...
- nonce42 3y agoNo. New HIV diagnoses in the US are 67% male-to-male sexual contact, 22% heterosexual contact, and 7% injection drug use. (BTW, I have no agenda here except accurate statistics.) From https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html
- zajio1am 3y agoAccording to [0] in 2020, MSM accounted for 71% of new HIV diagnoses, while people who inject drugs (PWID) accounted for 7% of new HIV infections. AFAIK similar stats are also for western and central Europe. These are population-level stats, not relative risks, but If we disregard PWID and scale to population size, MSM are still one to two orders of magnitude more at risk than non-MSM, non-PWID population, so they are clearly disproportionately affected. [0] https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...