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Tags: hiv, Hiv Infection Rate, OzChicago HIV report sparks reaction
The Chicago Public Health Department’s alarming report, released Friday, that suggests the HIV infection rate among gay men in Chicago is nearly 20% has drawn varied responses from Chicago’s gay and lesbian community.
ChicagoPride.com surveyed a number of gay men on a busy Saturday night in Boystown.
From Waveland to Buckingham, the responses were varied with one common undertone that gay men no longer think HIV is a death sentence. And despite extensive media coverage on the recently release report, many were unaware of the report and its contents.
“I’m not at all surprised by these statistics.” Said thirty-something Al joined by Jared and Jamie outside of the Center on Halsted. “The fact that a lot of our own community members are not aware of their status is probably because of their fear of knowing.”
“We are very closeted in the U.S. regarding educating our youth,” added Jaime.
Some do not believe the numbers and conclusions published in the report.
“You can work the numbers however you want,” said Matthew a bartender at Buck’s. See Chicago HIV report sparks reaction
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bout 17 percent of gay men in Chicago are HIV-positive — and half of them don’t know it.
That’s according to authorititative new estimates from the Chicago Public Health Department.
In particular, black men who have sex with men have double the HIV infection rates of white and Hispanic men, even though they don’t appear to engage in riskier behavior, Chicago health officials said today.
Their report was based on data collected last year from 570 Chicago men in the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance system.
It’s the first time Chicago health officials have used blood-testing to determine HIV infection rates in this high-risk population, said Christopher Brown, assistant commissioner of the health department’s STD, HIV and AIDS division.
Past estimates have relied solely on interviews with gay and bisexual men about their HIV status.
“What we found out pretty much confirms what we’ve known for a while,” Brown said.
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Guyana credits U.S. campaign with slashing AIDS rate
(Georgetown, Guyana) Guyana says a U.S.-funded AIDS prevention program has helped slash the HIV infection rate in the South American country from nearly 3 percent to about 1 percent.
Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy says the program led by the U.S. Agency for International Development “is a huge success story.”
The $20 million …
Tags: aids, Aids Prevention, Georgetown Guyana, Health Minister, hiv, Hiv Infection Rate, Led, Prevention Program, Success StorySF fails to cut HIV in gay men by 50 percent
San Francisco health officials set for themselves a fairly high mark five years ago in their fight against HIV: reduce new infections among gay and bi men by 50 percent by 2008.
Based on the latest estimates for new HIV infection rates in San Francisco, the city failed to reach its goal. It did achieve a roughly 10 percent reduction in HIV rates and has downgraded classifying its HIV epidemic to now being endemic, meaning rates are remaining flat from year to year.
Back in 2004, when the reduction target was included in the San Francisco HIV Prevention Plan, the health department estimated there were 1,082 new infections of HIV each year, with gay and bi men accounting for 835 of those cases.
Today, the city has reduced those estimates, with approximately 975 new HIV infections expected each year, with gay and bi men accounting for 772 of those cases. The bulk of those individuals continue to be among white men.
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Indonesia scraps plan to tag PWAs
(Jakarta) An Indonesian province beleaguered by a spiraling HIV infection rate scrapped plans to implant microchips in those with full-blown AIDS on Tuesday, following strong opposition from government officials, health workers and rights activists.
Papua’s parliament agreed to drop a section of the health development bill that supported the tagging of …
Tags: Activists, aids, Full Blown Aids, Government Officials, Health Development, Health Workers, hiv, Hiv Infection Rate, Indonesia, Indonesian Province, Jakarta, Microchips, Opposition, Papua, Parliament, Scraps, TagIndonesia scraps plan to tag PWAs
(Jakarta) An Indonesian province beleaguered by a spiraling HIV infection rate scrapped plans to implant microchips in those with full-blown AIDS on Tuesday, following strong opposition from government officials, health workers and rights activists.
Papua’s parliament agreed to drop a section of the health development bill that supported the tagging of …
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