News Article: America's Hidden HIV Epidemic

[Displaced Bama Fan]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/america’s-hidden-hiv-epidemic/ar-BBC9jUd?li=BBnbfcL

The crisis is most acute in Southern states, which hold 37 percent of the country’s population and as of 2014 accounted for 54 percent of all new H.I.V. diagnoses. The South is also home to 21 of the 25 metropolitan areas with the highest H.I.V. prevalence among gay and bisexual men. Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, the country’s poorest state, is best known for blues, barbecue and “The Help.” It also has the nation’s highest rate — 40 percent — of gay and bisexual men living with H.I.V., followed by Columbia, S.C.; El Paso; Augusta, Ga.; and Baton Rouge, La. In Jackson, a small city of just over 170,000, half a dozen black gay or bisexual men receive the shock of a diagnosis every month, and more than 3,600 people, the majority of them black men, live with the virus.

 

[Jessica4Bama]

I saw this article yesterday, but didn't read all of it. I'm kinda shocked, though, that in 2017 this is still an epidemic. Especially with all the research and education that is done on HIV, but after reading some of the article it appears to be centered on the south and the poorer communities where maybe education isn't as prevalent.

 

[MobtownK]

Being from Alabama but going to high school up north (Ohio), then moving back to Alabama for college, I was shocked at the amount of people in the South who never considered condoms because they weren't homosexual. They figured they were immune because the we're heterosexual. They were all more concerned with not gettng pregnant. Which to me is just crazy.
We knew of at least a few friends who had various diseases. If any had HIV, we didn't know it, but it wouldn't shock me.
Different mindsets I suppose, but some education on the matter would certainly benefit everyone.

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[Displaced Bama Fan]

Being from Alabama but going to high school up north (Ohio), then moving back to Alabama for college, I was shocked at the amount of people in the South who never considered condoms because they weren't homosexual. They figured they were immune because the we're heterosexual. They were all more concerned with not gettng pregnant. Which to me is just crazy.
We knew of at least a few friends who had various diseases. If any had HIV, we didn't know it, but it wouldn't shock me.
Different mindsets I suppose, but some education on the matter would certainly benefit everyone.

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Well, I like to "stealth" my wife...oh, wait, she's fixed.

 

[NationalTitles18]

Being from Alabama but going to high school up north (Ohio), then moving back to Alabama for college, I was shocked at the amount of people in the South who never considered condoms because they weren't homosexual. They figured they were immune because the we're heterosexual. They were all more concerned with not gettng pregnant. Which to me is just crazy.
We knew of at least a few friends who had various diseases. If any had HIV, we didn't know it, but it wouldn't shock me.
Different mindsets I suppose, but some education on the matter would certainly benefit everyone.

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​Abstinence only!!!

 

[MobtownK]

​Abstinence only!!!

Yeah.. because that works real well with college kids [emoji12]

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